[f. the surname Williams + -ITE1.]

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  1.  A follower of Roger Williams, an American colonist of the 17th century.

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1833.  Whittier, Pr. Wks. (1889), I. 269. I’m afraid you have become a Williamsite.

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  2.  Min. An impure variety of serpentine, named after L. W. Williams, an American mineralogist.

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1848.  Shepard, in Amer. Jrnl. Sci., Ser. II. VI. 249.

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