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Auld licht
Auld licht Auld licht, Auld light Auld light . (Eccl. Hist.) (a) A member of the conservative party in the Church of Scotland in the latter part of the 18th century. (b) Same as Burgher, n., 2.

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- before the 'Auld Licht'/'New Licht' division) Michael Willis 'Auld Licht' Professor of Theology, son of the next William Willis, 'Auld Licht' Professor...
- first novels: Auld Licht Idylls (1888), A Window in Thrums (1889), and The Little Minister (1891). The stories depicted the "Auld Lichts", a strict religious...
- factions formed their own, separate "Auld Licht" (old light) and "New Licht" factions. The more Calvinistic "Auld Lichts" held to the obligations of the Solemn...
- The terms Old Lights and New Lights (among others) are used in Protestant Christian circles to distinguish between two groups that were initially the same...
- congregation of Auld Licht Anti-Burghers in 1813. The building's first congregation was founded in 1806, when Thomas M'Crie the Elder, a leading Auld-Licht or conservative...
- in Kirriemuir. He called this "wee red toonie" "Thrums" in his novels Auld Licht Idylls, A Window in Thrums, and The Little Minister. "Red" refers to a...
- Gabriel Setoun, Robina F. Hardy and S. R. Crockett. Works such as Barrie's Auld Licht Idylls (1888), A Window in Thrums (1889), and The Little Minister (1891);...
- very much within the confines of the rigid moral and social ethic of ‘Auld Licht’ Calvinism. Early accounts described him as 'a pious child of modest,...
- Beside The Bonnie Brier Bush (Hodder & Stoughton, 1896). Barrie, J. M. Auld Licht Idylls (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1902) Barrie, J. M. A Window in Thrums...
- story of Gavin Dishart, a staid cleric who is newly ****igned to Thrums' Auld Licht church, and Babbie, a member of the nobility who disguises herself as...