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Definition of Dopper
1. n. An Anabaptist or Baptist.
Definition of Dopper
1. a dabchick [n -S] - See also: dabchick
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dopper
Literary usage of Dopper
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1909)
"He drew away a number of Boers, including Paul Kruger, and founded the "
Gereformeerde " or '•'•dopper " (" Roundhead ") Church, which had a great influence ..."
2. The Africander Land by Archibald Ross Colquhoun (1906)
"Even at the height of his power, as is well known, Kriiger could never make the
dopper Church that of the State, and when he was to be buried there was no ..."
3. What I Think of South Africa: Its People and Its Politics by Stuart C. Cumberland (1896)
"In its walk it has the ungainliness of the dopper Boer; and the arrogant toss
... Is it that the ostrich has copied the dopper, or the dopper the ostrich ? ..."
4. South Africa: Its History, Heroes and Wars by William Douglas Mackenzie, Alfred Stead (1899)
"President Kruger early became and has ever since remained a dopper. Naturally this
party would include many of the most earnest and the most determined men ..."
5. Sketches and Studies in South Africa by William John Knox-Little (1899)
"They appear all to be Calvinistic; and the chief difference between "the dopper"
and the others appeared to me to be that the latter used hymns in public ..."
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