Newmanite
构词拆解
- -ite
- (sometimes derogatory) Used to form nouns denoting followers or adherents of a specified person, idea, doctrine, movement, etc. · Used to form nouns denoting descendants of a specified historical person, especially a biblical figure.
词源说明
From Newman + -ite, after the prominent Tractarian John Henry Newman.
释义
名词noun
- 1(historical, originally derogatory) A follower of the doctrines of John Henry Newman; hence, up to his conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1845, a member of the Oxford movement.