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First published 1960 (SND Vol. V).
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HALDAN(E)ITE, n. A follower of the brothers Robert and James Haldane, leaders of an early nineteenth century Scottish evangelical movement, now represented partly by the Congregational and partly by the Baptist Church in Scotland. Also used attrib. Now only hist. Sc. 1807 J. Hall Travels I. 16:
A petty practitioner of the law in Stirling, whether tinctured with the doctrines of the Haldanites, or with any religious doctrines at all, . . . sent his proportion of the stipend to the clergyman by the hands of the hangman.Sc. 1820 Lonsdale Mag. (Oct.) 443:
The Haldanites were also now becoming more strict in their discipline.Abd. 1950 Huntly Express (24 Feb.):
Many years prior to the Disruption a section of the Haldaneites settled at Succoth, Glass. They held religious services which rapidly became the wonder of the neighbourhood.