2. Noun. (plural of ranter) ¹
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Definition of Ranters
1. ranter [n] - See also: ranter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ranters
Literary usage of Ranters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"By far the most unattractive of the sectaries of this time are the Ranters, who
seem to have been almost identical in doctrine and 6. ..."
2. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey, John Wood Warter (1850)
"Ranters. " I HAVE a collection of several Ranters' books in a thick quarto," says
LESLIE: "and though I am pretty well versed with the Quaker strain, ..."
3. History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1656 by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1903)
"3 The second The was directed against the Ranters, who carried to an Ranters.
extreme the principle of inward conviction which was the basis of Puritanism, ..."
4. A History of the English Church During the Civil Wars and Under the by William Arthur Shaw (1900)
"... of tne following year the Rump found itself by legislation engaged in repressive
intolerant legislation against Ranters, the Ranters.3 June, 1650. ..."
5. A History of the English Church During the Civil Wars and Under the by William Arthur Shaw (1900)
"... and in the course of the following year the Rump found itself engaged in
repressive intolerant legislation against ' the Ranters. - 1 CJ, vi., 282, 470, ..."
6. Unorthodox London; Or, Phases of Religious Life in the Metropolis by Charles Maurice Davies (1874)
"TABERNACLE Ranters. IT was after this undignified title—against which I desire
... The Primitive Methodists, or " Ranters," as they are opprobriously termed ..."
7. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Ranters. Free Gospel and Christian Brethren. Recreative Religionists. F rey Gospel
Church. Reformed Church of England. Five Grace Gospel Christians. ..."
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