unalist

English

Etymology

Latin unus one.

Noun

unalist (plural unalists)

  1. (Britain) An ecclesiastical who holds only one benefice.
    • Vicesimus Knox, The Spirit of Despotism
      I do not deny but there are pluralists of great ecclesiastical merit; but I do deny that in general pluralists have greater merit than unalists […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for unalist in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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