Diaspora

Diaspora
Diaspora Di*as"po*ra, n. [Gr. ?. See {Diaspore}.] Lit., ``Dispersion.'' -- applied collectively: (a) To those Jews who, after the Exile, were scattered through the Old World, and afterwards to Jewish Christians living among heathen. Cf. --James i. 1. (b) By extension, to Christians isolated from their own communion, as among the Moravians to those living, usually as missionaries, outside of the parent congregation. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

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