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Labadist

Labadist \Lab"a*dist\, n. (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.

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labadist

n. (context historical English) A member of a 17th-century Protestant religious community movement founded by (w: Jean de Labadie) (1610–1674), a French pietist.

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The diary was the one kept by the Labadist missionaries--Dankers and Sluyter--and was only recently unearthed by Henry Murphy at The Hague.