"Old Light" meaning in All languages combined

See Old Light on Wiktionary

Proper name [English]

Head templates: {{en-proper noun|head=Old Light}} Old Light
  1. (Christianity) A relatively traditional, conservative religious movement, especially (historical) the religious movement consisting of the seceders from the Church of Scotland who continued to hold unchanged the principle of the connection between church and state, the position maintained by the first seceders in 1733. Categories (topical): Christianity Derived forms: Old Lighter Coordinate_terms: New Light
    Sense id: en-Old_Light-en-name-F1TLoL3O Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 79 21 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 88 12 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 95 5 Topics: Christianity

Noun [English]

Forms: Old Lights [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|head=Old Light}} Old Light (plural Old Lights)
  1. A member of such a religious movement.
    Sense id: en-Old_Light-en-noun-9nLySXB-

Inflected forms

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "Old Light"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Light",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Christianity",
          "orig": "en:Christianity",
          "parents": [
            "Abrahamism",
            "Religion",
            "Culture",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "79 21",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "88 12",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "95 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "coordinate_terms": [
        {
          "word": "New Light"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "Old Lighter"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Michael I. Meyerson, Endowed by Our Creator: The Birth of Religious Freedom in America, Yale University Press, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Because many of the New Light Baptist churches were not recognized by the Old Light Baptists, these endorsements were often impossible to obtain.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A relatively traditional, conservative religious movement, especially (historical) the religious movement consisting of the seceders from the Church of Scotland who continued to hold unchanged the principle of the connection between church and state, the position maintained by the first seceders in 1733."
      ],
      "id": "en-Old_Light-en-name-F1TLoL3O",
      "links": [
        [
          "Christianity",
          "Christianity"
        ],
        [
          "traditional",
          "traditional"
        ],
        [
          "conservative",
          "conservative"
        ],
        [
          "religious",
          "religious"
        ],
        [
          "movement",
          "movement"
        ],
        [
          "seceder",
          "seceder"
        ],
        [
          "Church of Scotland",
          "Church of Scotland"
        ],
        [
          "connection",
          "connection"
        ],
        [
          "church",
          "church"
        ],
        [
          "state",
          "state"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Christianity) A relatively traditional, conservative religious movement, especially (historical) the religious movement consisting of the seceders from the Church of Scotland who continued to hold unchanged the principle of the connection between church and state, the position maintained by the first seceders in 1733."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "Christianity"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Old Light"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Old Lights",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "Old Light"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Light (plural Old Lights)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A member of such a religious movement."
      ],
      "id": "en-Old_Light-en-noun-9nLySXB-"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Old Light"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English proper nouns",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "coordinate_terms": [
    {
      "word": "New Light"
    }
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "Old Lighter"
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "Old Light"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Light",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Christianity"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Michael I. Meyerson, Endowed by Our Creator: The Birth of Religious Freedom in America, Yale University Press, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Because many of the New Light Baptist churches were not recognized by the Old Light Baptists, these endorsements were often impossible to obtain.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A relatively traditional, conservative religious movement, especially (historical) the religious movement consisting of the seceders from the Church of Scotland who continued to hold unchanged the principle of the connection between church and state, the position maintained by the first seceders in 1733."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Christianity",
          "Christianity"
        ],
        [
          "traditional",
          "traditional"
        ],
        [
          "conservative",
          "conservative"
        ],
        [
          "religious",
          "religious"
        ],
        [
          "movement",
          "movement"
        ],
        [
          "seceder",
          "seceder"
        ],
        [
          "Church of Scotland",
          "Church of Scotland"
        ],
        [
          "connection",
          "connection"
        ],
        [
          "church",
          "church"
        ],
        [
          "state",
          "state"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Christianity) A relatively traditional, conservative religious movement, especially (historical) the religious movement consisting of the seceders from the Church of Scotland who continued to hold unchanged the principle of the connection between church and state, the position maintained by the first seceders in 1733."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "Christianity"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Old Light"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English proper nouns",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Old Lights",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "Old Light"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Light (plural Old Lights)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A member of such a religious movement."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Old Light"
}

Download raw JSONL data for Old Light meaning in All languages combined (2.5kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-11-21 using wiktextract (94ba7e1 and 5dea2a6). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.