Obs. [f. as prec. + -ITY, after Christianity.]

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  1.  = ANTICHRISTIANISM 1.

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1555.  R. Taylor, in Foxe, A. & M. (1596), 1383/2. I did also affirme … poperie Antichristianitie.

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1594.  Hooker, Eccl. Pol., IV. (1617), 133. Popery being Antichristianity, is not healed but by establishment of orders thereunto opposite. The way to bring a drunken man to sobriety, is to carry him as farre from excesse of drinke as may be.

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1670.  Baxter, Cure Ch.-Div., Pref. II. § 6. To suspect them of Antichristianity.

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  2.  = ANTICHRISTIANISM 2. ‘Contrariety to Christianity.’ J.

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1661.  Baxter, Moral Prognost., I. § 91. 21. To call things lawful, by the name of Sin and Anti-christianity.

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1687.  Good Advice, 19. Christianity should be propagated by the Spirit of Christianity, and not by Violence and Persecution, for that’s the Spirit of Antichristianity.

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1731.  In Bailey; whence in J. etc.

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