preferment, separatist, pilgrim, presbyterian. The locals have an independent character. Many live in weather-beaten cottages and drive junker cars that don’t require a state inspection sticker if kept on-island.

The locals have an independent character. Many live in weather-beaten cottages and drive junker cars that don’t require a state inspection sticker if kept on-island. Since the 1880s, Peaks Islanders have mounted six unsuccessful campaigns to secede from Portland, which is three miles away and governs the island.

Richard Baxter (12 November 1615 – 8 December 1691) was an English Puritan church leader, poet, hymn-writer,^[1] theologian, and controversialist. Dean Stanley called him "the chief of English Protestant Schoolmen". After some false starts, he made his reputation by his ministry at Kidderminster, and at around the same time began a long and prolific career as theological writer. After the Restoration he refused preferment, while retaining a non-separatist presbyterian approach, and became one of the most influential leaders of the nonconformists, spending time in prison.

presbyterian[pres・by・te・ri・an]

• 発音記号[prèzbətíəriən]

[形]（またprès・by・té・ri・al）長老（会）制の；((P-))長老派教会の（Calvinの流れをくむプロテスタント）.

━━[名]長老派（教会員）（▼英米ともに上・中流階級層が多い）；長老主義者.

pres・by・te・ri・an・ìsm

[名][U]長老制；長老教会の教理.





A handful of separatists made it to the Netherlands and the town of Leiden, where the American Pilgrim Museum preserves their memory.
separatist

(sĕp'ər-ə-tĭst, sĕp'rə-, sĕp'ə-rā'-)
n.

1. One who secedes or advocates separation, especially from an established church; a sectarian or separationist.
2. One who advocates disjunction of a group from a larger group or political unit: Basque separatists.
3. One who advocates cultural, ethnic, or racial separation.

separatism sep'a·ra·tism n.
separatist sep'a·ra·tist adj.
separatistic sep'a·ra·tis'tic adj.

[名][形]分離主義者（の）；政教分離主義者（の）；分離独立派（の）.
pre·fer·ment (prĭ-fûr'mənt)
n.

1. The act of advancing to a higher position or office; promotion.
2. A position, appointment, or rank giving advancement, as of profit or prestige.
3. The act of preferring or the state of being preferred.

[名][U]((形 式))昇進, 昇格；出世, 栄達；（…への）抜てき((to ...)).