Orderite

Orderite

See also: orderite

English

Etymology

Order +‎ -ite

Noun

Orderite (plural Orderites)

1. Alternative letter-case form of orderite; a member of a specified (real or notional) Order (for example, the United Order or the New World Order).
   • 1971, The Western Humanities Review:

     In his admirable monograph, Leonard J. Arrington has given a new slant to this experiment. Here are the facts and figures, the letters, the problems, the attitudes of both the Orderites and their neighbors.

   • 1973, Charles S. Peterson, Take Up Your Mission: Mormon Colonizing Along the Little Colorado River, 1870-1900:

     Although certain residents of the United Order towns were active in the cooperative movement, control was decidedly in the hands of the larger and somewhat more affluent Eastern Arizona Stake. Numerical and economic matters doubtlessly curtailed the participation of the "Orderites," but a more important determinant was the fact that they entertained strong doubts as to the religious and social soundness of such conventional methods. Lot Smith's reaction was characteristic. "Debt ...

   • 1996, Willa Mae Hemmons, Black Women in the New World Order: Social Justice and the African American Female, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 152:

     As used here, Orderites are viewed as those (1) whose group is currently in power in the United States; (2) who directly have a strong vested interest in keeping their group in power; and (3) who currently have the right, responsibility and resources to keep their group in power. [...] Rather unabashedly arrogant, understandably so given the success of most of their ventures, the Orderites seem to make it a plus to have the status of being White and not on welfare — at least not the stigmatized version. On the other hand, these Orderites seldom miss an opportunity to magnify caricatures of African Americans either in featured crime (males) or welfare (females) media series.