The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
Plymouth Brethren — The Plymouth Brethren is a conservative, Evangelical Christian movement, whose history can be traced to Dublin, Ireland, in the late 1820s.[1][2] Although the group is notable for not taking any official church name to itself, and not having an… … Wikipedia
Plymouth Brethren — a loosely organized body of Christians founded in Plymouth, England, about 1830, having no ordained ministry, no formal creed or ritual, and accepting the Bible as the only guide. [1835 45] * * * ▪ religious community community of… … Universalium
Plymouth Brethren — Dieser Artikel oder Absatz stellt die Situation in Deutschland dar. Hilf mit, die Situation in anderen Ländern zu schildern. Die Brüderbewegung ist eine im 19. Jahrhundert entstandene freikirchliche Bewegung, deren örtliche Gemeinden… … Deutsch Wikipedia
PLYMOUTH BRETHREN — one of the most influential NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS to emerge in the nineteenth century; founded by John Nelson Darby (1800 1882) in 1830. The Brethren split into a number of different groups including the extremist EXCLUSIVE BRETHREN and… … Concise dictionary of Religion
Plymouth Brethren — See Brethren … Encyclopedia of Protestantism
PLYMOUTH BRETHREN — an anti clerical body of Christians, one of the earliest communities of which was formed in Plymouth about 1830; they accept, along with Pre Millenarian views, generally the Calvinistic view of the Christian religion, and exclude all… … The Nuttall Encyclopaedia
Plymouth Brethren — plural noun a strict Calvinistic religious body formed at Plymouth in Devon, having no formal creed or ministry and emphasizing an expected millennium … English new terms dictionary
Plymouth Brethren — /plɪməθ ˈbrɛðrən/ (say plimuhth bredhruhn) plural noun a Christian denomination which originated in the 1820s in the UK in Plymouth, Bristol, and Dublin, based on a conservative and puritanical theology, but having no formal creed and no order of …
Plymouth Brethren — n.pl. a strict Calvinistic religious body formed at Plymouth in Devon c.1830, having no formal creed and no official order of ministers … Useful english dictionary
Plymouth Brethren — Plym|outh Breth|ren n [plural] a Christian organization that has very strict moral rules and is opposed to religious ceremony … Dictionary of contemporary English
