Seekers

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ranter \Rant"er\ (r[a^]nt"[~e]r), n.
     1. A noisy talker; a raving declaimer.
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     2. (Eccl. Hist.)
        (a) One of a religious sect which sprung up in 1645; --


            called also {Seekers}. See {Seeker}.
        (b) One of the Primitive Methodists, who seceded from the
            Wesleyan Methodists on the ground of their deficiency
            in fervor and zeal; -- so called in contempt.
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