sb. and a. [f. proper name Whitefield or Whitfield + -IAN.] a. sb. A follower of George Whitefield; a Calvinistic Methodist. b. adj. Of or belonging to George Whitefield or the Whitefieldians. So Whit(e)fieldianism, Whit(e)fieldism, the system or doctrines of the Whitefieldians: Whit(e)fieldite, a Whitefieldian.
1744. in G. T. S. Farquhar, Three Bps. Dunkeld (1915), I. xi. 94. He is looked upon by Lyon at Perth … as a Whitefieldian.
1748. St. James’ Even. Post, Oct. Hamburg…. A new set of Methodists (much like our Whitefieldites).
1786. Told, Life, 87. I treated him with ridicule and contempt, he being a Whitfieldite.
1879. Gladstone, Glean., VII. 224. Whitfieldism on the one hand, and the clericalism of the eighteenth century on the other.
1885. Scribner’s Mag., XXX. 390/1. Puritanism, quakerism, and what may be comprehensively called Whitefieldism.
1915. G. T. S. Farquhar, Three Bps. Dunkeld, I. xi. 94. A … discourse … upon the Christian doctrine of Justification (evidently intended to test his Whitefieldianism).
