Russellite

See also: russellite

English

Etymology

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) 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, “(please specify the chapter number)”, 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.

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