Sabbatarian

I'm not in principle a dedicated, old-style sabbatarian, but there are moments when I fully understand what that is about in its most positive sense -- and many of those moments happen when I'm enjoying a Sabbath eve meal with Jewish friends, when I realize just what it is to have twenty-four hours experienced as sheer gift and grace, to be welcomed like a bride. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Sunday in increasingly multicultural America will probably lose even more of its strict sabbatarian character, but Mr. Miller doubts that its specialness will ever be entirely lost. ❋ Jay Tolson (2008)

Do you know if anybody has purposely marketed an electronic workaround for sabbatarian rules? ❋ Unknown (2007)

The Israelites, a messianic sabbatarian sect, whose ritual included baptism by total immersion at midnight, the kiss of peace, and an annual passover, had made their headquarters in the location at Ntaba ❋ Ray Esther (1969)

The geese on the green downs, just below the village, had clearly never even heard of Calvin; they were luxuriating in a series of plunges into the deep pools in a way to prove complete ignorance of nice sabbatarian laws. ❋ Anna Bowman Dodd (N/A)

A conscientious diarist, though full of sabbatarian zeal, was fain to admit that 'Severall sorts of Busnesses was a-Going on: Sum a-Exercising, Sum a-Hearing o' the ❋ William Charles Henry Wood (1905)

Puritan jurisprudence, 113; sabbatarian extravagance provokes reaction, 371. ❋ 1830-1907 (1897)

I have elsewhere spoken of a past sabbatarian strictness, and I have lately received an account of a strictness in observing the national fast-day, or day appointed for preparation in celebrating Holy Communion, which has in some measure passed away. ❋ Ramsay, Edward B (1874)

I have an instance of a very grim assertion of extreme sabbatarian zeal. ❋ Ramsay, Edward B (1874)

"Oh, A SHOP, you mean," Philip replied, putting on at once his most respectable British sabbatarian air. ❋ Grant Allen (1873)

Belgrave's sabbatarian views, see Peter Pindar, 'Works' (1812), iv. ❋ George Gordon Byron Byron (1806)

And Sportscotland - knowing there are questions about the legality of closing public facilities on a Sunday for religious reasons - continues to give grants to sabbatarian groups. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Maypole dances were often a Sunday afternoon recreation and, given their roots in pagan seasonal festivals and the practice of mixed-sex dancing and general carousing, the strictly sabbatarian Puritans and others sought to have such celebrations suppressed. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He would bare to untired world of Leimunconon-nulstria (and what a strip poker globbtrottel they pairs would looks!) how wholefallows, his guffer, the sabbatarian (might faction split his beard!), he too had a great big oh in the megafundum of his tomashunders and how her Lettyshape, his gummer, that congealed sponsar, she had never cessed at waking malters among the jemassons since the duft that meataxe delt her made her microchasm as gap as down low. ❋ Unknown (2006)