Meaning of Wilkinsonian | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A follower of the Quaker preacher Jemima Wilkinson, known as the Public Universal Friend; a member of the Universal Friends.
2. A supporter of any of a number of other people named Wilkinson.

Examples

“The Wilkinsonians are equally to the present point. They lived, for the most part, not more than twenty- five miles from Manchester, New York, the town in which Mormonism was first preached; […]”

“Yet Wilkinsonians (or the Universal Friends, as they dubbed themselves), despite their obscurity, provide a crucial case study. The prophetic and supernatural claims of the Wilkinsonians preceded all their contemporaries, but […]”

“If Mr. Doulton does not know what consistency is, teach him, and place Mr. Wilkinson at the head of the poll. That was regarded as "vituperation," and the St. Giles's poet was called into play. This was the shot he fired at the Wilkinsonians […]”

“Pagitt proceeds to discriminate the varieties of the Separatists. In addition to Brownists, there are Barrowists, Wilkinsonians, Johnsonians, Ainsworthians, Robinsonians, and followers of John Smith and Thomas Lemar.”

“The Wilkinsonians, unaware that the Commander-in-Chief knew of their plots, continued their disloyal practices. They spread rumors among the Kentuckians that trouble with the commissariat was all Wayne's fault, and that […]”

“Edith Sitwell, in her charming history of Bath, lists, at the time of Jonathan Swift's sojournal there, just a few of the sects available, […]. There were Antinomians, Hederingtonians, Theaurian Joanites, Seekers, Waiters, Reevists, Brownists, Baronists, Wilkinsonians, Familists, Ranters, Muggletonians, and the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion. They are all now forgotten: the law of extinction seems to apply as ruthlessly to sects as it does to species.”

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