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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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Davis seeks to meet this challenge by positing as the critical turning point Merian's conversion to Pietism, her departure from her husband, and her retirement for five or six years to the Labadist community at Wieuwerd in Friesland.
Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Lives by Schutte, Anne Jacobson / Renaissance Quarterly
Married for twenty years, Merian experienced a dramatic religious conversion in 1685, and abruptly left her husband to join the Labadist religious community in Friesland.
Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Lives by Adams, Christine / Journal of Social History
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