ranter

noun

rant·​er

ˈran-tər

plural -s

1

: one that rants

especially : a noisy bombastic speaker

2

usually capitalized

a

: a member of a 17th century pantheistic, antinomian, and highly individualistic religious group in England

b

: a member of the Primitive Methodists who seceded from the Wesleyan Methodists as being deficient in fervor and zeal

—usually used in derision and in allusion to the loud tones of their preaching and responses

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