Russellite

See also: russellite

English

Etymology

From Russell +‎ -ite.

Noun

Russellite (plural Russellites)

1. (historical) A follower of Sir Thomas Russell, 1st Baronet (1841–1920), Irish politician and agrarian agitator.
2. (historical, Christianity) A follower of Charles Taze Russell (1852–1916), Christian restorationist minister from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, and founder of what is now known as the Bible Student movement.
   • 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Which Describes an Evening in Strange Company”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

     When Malone next looked round he was gone. "He is one of these Second-coming fanatics," he whispered to Enid. There are a lot of them—Christadelphians, Russellites, Bible Students and what-not.

See also

• Russellian

Anagrams

• tellurises