Agapem'oné

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 89

Agapem'oné (Gr., 'love-abode'), a community of religious visionaries founded in 1859 at Charlinch, near Bridgewater, Somersetshire, by Henry James Prince, previously a clergyman of the Church of England. It is described in Hepworth Dixon's Spiritual Wives (1868).

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