Scripturist
nounEtymology From Scripture + -ist.
1
One who is strongly attached to, or versed in, the Scriptures, or who endeavours to live by them.
- The Puritan was a Scripturist,—a Scripturist with all his heart, if, as yet, with imperfect intelligence. […] [H]e cherished the scheme of looking to the Word of God as his sole and universal directory.1858, John Gorham Palfrey, chapter VII, in History of New England during the Stuart Dynasty. […], volume I, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company, →OCLC, book I, page 274:
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