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plural familists
(religion, historical) A member of the Family of Love religious group in 16th-century England. quotations
Like Francis Bacon, Familists believed that men and women might recapture on earth the state of innocence which existed before the Fall: their enemies said they claimed to attain the perfection of Christ.
1972, Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down, Folio Society, published 2016, page 15