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Meaning of UCKEWALLIST

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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Uck`e*wal"list\, n. (Eccl. Hist.)
One of a sect of rigid Anabaptists, which originated in 1637,
and whose tenets were essentially the same as those of the
Mennonists. In addition, however, they held that Judas and
the murderers of Christ were saved. So called from the
founder of the sect, Ucke Wallis, a native of Friesland.
--Eadie.

 

 

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