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Labadist

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Lab´a`dist
n.1.(Eccl. Hist.) A follower of Jean de Labadie, a religious teacher of the 17th century, who left the Roman Catholic Church and taught a kind of mysticism, and the obligation of community of property among Christians.
Labadist
an adherent of Jean de Labadie, a French mystic.
See also: Protestantism
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Howe finds them linked to Wallace Stevens through the genealogy of his wife, Elsie, but beyond that, the Labadist movement appeals to Howe because of its belief in psychic illumination and reflection, the basic elements of her own work.
Souls of the Labadie Tract by Doreski, William / Harvard Review
Merian, her mother, and daughters threw in their lot with the Wieuwerd colony in Friesland, Holland, a Labadist communal enterprise supported by soaps, chemical salts, and pills for fevers.
A study of metamorphosis: more than 300 years ago, Maria Sibylla ... by Reidell, Heidi / Americas (English Edition)
Within less than fifty years, the Labadists disappeared almost without a trace.
Keeping time: Bennett Simpson on David Grubbs and Susan Howe by Simpson, Bennett / Artforum International
 
 
 
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