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First published 1968 (SND Vol. VII).
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REMNANT, n. Sc. Hist.: the name applied to their own body by the extreme Covenanters who refused to accept the Revolution Settlement of 1688, and esp. those who formed themselves into the Societies, later the Mcmillanites or Reformed Presbyterian Church (see Reform).Sc. 1706 M. Hutchison Ref. Presb. Ch. (1893) 150–1:
I, Mr. John McMillan, minister at Balmaghie having displeased the Godly Remnant and greatly offended them . . . Drawn up and signed by thirty-two individuals representing the “United Societies and General Correspondences of the suffering Remnant of the true Presbyterian Church in Scotland.”Sc. 1818 Scott H. Midlothian xxxiv.:
I have been bred in the faith of the suffering remnant of the Presbyterian doctine in Scotland.Slk. 1818 Hogg B. of Bodsbeck iii.:
We belang to a poor proscribed remnant, that hae fled from the face of a bloody persecution.