primitive baptist

primitive baptist
noun
Usage: usually capitalized P&B
: a member of an ultraconservative Baptist religious group that dates from early in the 19th century but has never been formally organized as a denomination and that from its origin has represented a protest movement against missions and Sunday schools

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(esp. in the Southern U.S.) one belonging to a highly conservative, loosely organized Baptist group, characterized by extreme fundamentalism and by opposition to missionary work, Sunday Schools, and the use of musical instruments in church.
[1850-55, Amer.]

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