Freedomite

freedomite English 2020 January 22 Etymology From en freedom ite suffix forming nouns denoting adherents or followers of a specified doctrine, idea, movement, person, etc., a en ru Свободник 1, from ru свобо́да freedom, liberty + ru -ник suffix creating masculine nouns, usually denoting a professional, performer, adherent, place, object, tool or a feature. Pronunciation en /ˈfɹiːdəmaɪt/ RP en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Freedomite.wav Southern England en /ˈfɹidəmaɪt/ GA en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Commander Keane-Freedomite.wav Australia en Free dom ite Noun en also attributively en Canada historical A member of a Christian zealot sect that split off from the Doukhobors, and which was involved in protests against certain policies of the Canadian government during the early to mid 20th century; the Doukhobors were a non-Orthodox religious group which emigrated from Russia to Canada at the end of the 19th century to escape persecution. en Louisa W[atson] Peat Drama of the Doukhobor Canada: New World Power New York, N.Y. Robert M[edill] McBride & Co. 1945 77–78 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b727114&view=1up&seq=82 561787777 They [the Freedomites] have no deep-down objection to education, but a child who learns his lessons in English instead of Russian, and who rubs shoulders with some other race of youngsters, is liable to get some of the "Freedomite" edges rubbed smooth. The children are said to be communal, and that he is—allegedly—a wise Freedomite who knows his own father. en Debates of the Senate: Official Report (Hansard) w:Senate of Canada Ottawa, Ont. Queen’s Printer 1962 55 768059919 I think the house will find it interesting to know that 124 Freedomites served as volunteers during World War II. en Mary Ashworth The Forces which Shaped Them: A History of the Education of Minority Group Children in British Columbia Vancouver, B.C. New Star Books 1979 166 978-0-919888-92-0 The writer pointed out that of the approximately 12,500 Doukhobors in British Columbia, only about 2,500 belonged to the Freedomite group and of these only 46 families, involving 66 children, were currently refusing to send their children to school. en John McLaren The Law and Public Nudity: Prairie and West Coast Reactions to the Sons of Freedom, 1929–32 Louis A. Knafla; Jonathan Swainger Laws and Societies in the Canadian Prairie West, 1670–1940 Law and Society Vancouver, B.C. UBC Press 2005 part 2 (Adaptations to Modernity) 318–319 https://books.google.com/books?id=M65W9uPLztsC&pg=PA319 978-0-7748-1166-8 In certain quarters, the sentiment in relation to the Doukhobors was that the problems caused by the Freedomites were the result of zealotry and should not be confused with the aspirations and anxieties of the Doukhobor population at large, which was living in relative peace with itself and its neighbours. Freedomite resentment over and resistance to public education was no reason to undo the work of getting the rest of the Doukhobor community to buy into it. en Dominica A member of the Dominica Freedom Party. en Caribbean Review Miami, Fla. Caribbean Review 1981 10 82 0008-6525 924459512 Although unable to make inroads into the Labor government until this election, the Freedomites stalled land reform, thwarting the socialist ideology of the party in power. en Irving W. Andre; Gabriel J. Christian In Search of Eden: Dominica, the Travails of a Caribbean Mini-state Upper Marlboro, Md. Pond Casse Press 2002 2 9 978-0-9699857-5-4 Among the adherents of the new radicalism, the Freedom Party of 1970 was viewed as more a vehicle for criticism of the Labor regime (which the town-based Freedomites saw as an assault by the formerly powerless rural poor upon their citadel of privilege) than a catalyst for systemic change. en Dr. Sam Christians steps down as DFP Deputy Leader https://web.archive.org/web/20190326234247/http://dominicanewsonline.com/news/homepage/news/politics/dr-sam-christians-steps-down-as-dfp-deputy-leader/ 26 March 2019 Dominica News Online 7 November 2017 He told DNO on Monday differences within the party led to his resignation but remains a Freedomite and is firmly committed to the development of Dominica, especially after Hurricane Maria. en dated One who advocates for freedom in various contexts. en E[dmund] W[illiam] Berridge Homœopathy Vindicated: A Reply to Dr. Joseph Kidd’s ‘Laws of Therapeutics’ The Organon: A Quarterly Anglo-American Journal of Homœopathic Medicine and Progressive Collateral Science Liverpool Adam Holden January 1879 II 1 35 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015013791267&view=1up&seq=51 503889761 To what terrible straits the Freedomites, men who persist in their efforts to exercise the right to pervert Homœopathy into Eclecticism, are driven, becomes apparent by this last public effort of the Editor of a Quarterly Journal (professedly a Homœopathic periodical) to make it appear that [Samuel] Hahnemann himself favoured that freedom of medical opinion and action which, as history shows, emboldened its advocates, till finally they denounced our Law of Cure, called it a good rule at times, to be embodied merely as one of the many expedients resorted to by the Eclectic School. en Sada Bailey Fowler Love at Fairyland Irene; or, The Road to Freedom. A Novel Philadelphia, Pa. H. N. Fowler & Company,1123 Arch Street. 1886 255 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435018212035&view=1up&seq=267 27369776 Woman must have the perfect arbitration of her own individuality. The right to vote is good so far as it goes, but it alone cannot free her if man continues his ownership and control of her person. In this opinion Irene perfectly agrees with the Social Freedomites, so called, and, with us she has entered into the most thorough investigation of woman's social condition in all departments of life and every avenue of society. en William H[arvey] Canfield Birthday Party Old Settlers’ Illustrated Souvenir Album [Baraboo, Wis.] [Old Settlers’ Association of Sauk County] 14 April 1898 [1901] 28 https://books.google.com/books?id=TEZEAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA3-PA28 2 10160409 In behalf of our dear old friend and fellow citizen, we, a few of the North Freedomites with a few of your immediate neighbors, met here this evening to celebrate your 80th birthday. en A Letter from the South. Contributed by Los Angeles Strike Committee. Jas. W. Kline The Blacksmiths Journal: Official Organ of the International Brotherhood of Blacksmiths and Helpers Chicago, Ill. International Brotherhood of Blacksmiths and Helpers May 1911 XII 5 26 https://archive.org/details/blacksmithsjour00helpgoog/page/n882/mode/1up 1 36970554 The strike is being prosecuted so successfully that the M. and M. are driven to their wits' end. Even the non-unionists are rebelling at the benevolent despotism of the "Industrial Freedomites." en Medical Freedom John William Keating; Reuben Peterson Physician and Surgeon: A Professional Medical Journal Ann Arbor; Detroit, Mich. John William Keating August 1912 XXXIV VIII 339 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015016771027&view=1up&seq=361 243895898 The eyes of the public are being opened toward those grafters who are preying on the gullibility of the sick and bed-ridden humanity. [...] [T]hey have banded together, and under the guise of injured innocence they bob up again as exponents of "medical freedom." [...] The medical freedomite officers are the proselytes of the medical fake nostrums who, like the vultures, live on the carcasses of incurable diseases. en George Stein [Report to the International Typographical Union from George Stein, Los Angeles Representative, for the period June 1, 1912, to April 30, 1913] J. W. Hays Supplement to the Typographical Journal: Official Paper of the International Typographical Union of North America Indianapolis, Ind. J. W. Hayes 15 August 1912 1913 XLIII 2 227 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.li2bww&view=1up&seq=495 1 2451261 A notorious "industrial freedomite" will begin publication of a daily in Santa Barbara. The officers of No. 349, after interviewing the promoter and hearing his defiant declaration that he would run an "open shop," presented the facts to the Santa Barbara Union at the regular meeting on April 13, 1913, when the union decided unanimously that union men will not be permitted to work on the paper. en [William Augustus] Evans Insurance Dr. Evans’ How to Keep Well: A Health Book for the Home New York, N.Y. Published for Sears, Roebuck and Co. by D[aniel] Appleton and Company 1917 1246–1247 https://archive.org/details/drevanshowtokee00evan/page/1247/mode/1up 79937423 One spring the National League for Medical Freedom advertised its opposition [...] to the expenditures of public money for the compulsory examination of school children. [...] As I have understood these Freedomites the freedom of the family to employ whom they pleased was just what they wanted. [...] If government modifies the policy to give the Freedomites the freedom asked for, they are "agin" that. en William F[rank] Buckley, Jr. The Superstitions of ‘Academic Freedom’ https://books.google.com/books?id=i4ErsUZal1cC&pg=PT197 God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of “Academic Freedom” Chicago, Ill. w:Regnery Publishing 1951 869575612 50th anniversary Washington, D.C. Regnery Publishing 2012 978-1-59698-803-3 The extent to which relativism has conquered the thinking processes of the academic freedomites would, on reflection, I believe, astound even the most emphatic of their number. en Anthony Murphy Culture Clash: The Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) and the Austrian Avant-Garde in the 1990s Ian Foster; Juliet Wigmore Neighbours and Strangers: Literary and Cultural Relations in Germany, Austria and Central Europe since 1989 German Monitor 59 Amsterdam; New York, N.Y. Rodopi 2004 abstract 143 https://books.google.com/books?id=7mK2e71p2LEC&pg=PA143 978-90-420-1891-4 Since the early 1990s, the Austrian Freedom Party, the FPÖ, has used the issue of culture as a political lever, claiming that the Left enjoyed hegemonic status in the arts in Austria. [...] Attacks on Hermann Nitsch, Elfriede Jelinek and Claus Peymann are characteristic of Freedomite tactics, but the force of rhetoric cannot disguise the absence of a genuine positive cultural policy once in power. Alternative forms en freedomite Translations member of a Christian zealot sect that split off from the Doukhobors Russian: ru Свободник m, ru Свободница f member of the Dominica Freedom Party one who advocates for freedom in various contexts Further reading Freedomites en People Eastern Orthodoxy