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Hutterite, n. (a.)|ˈhʌtəraɪt|
[f. the name of Jacob Hutter (d. 1536), a Moravian Anabaptist + -ite1.]
A member of an Anabaptist sect established by Jacob Hutter in Moravia, or of immigrant communities in North America having similar beliefs. Also ˈHutite, Huttite. b. attrib. or as adj. Of, pertaining to, or holding the doctrines of, the Hutterites. Also Huˈt(t)erian a., esp. Hutterian Brethren.
1645E. Pagitt Heresiography (ed. 2) 33 Hutites, who boast themselves to be the only children of God, and heires of heaven. 1897J. L. & E. G. Mulliken tr. Kautsky's Communism in Cent. Europe v. 214 The community of the Huterites in Moravia has the greatest significance in the history of socialism. 1924Jrnl. Pol. Econ. XXXII. 472 Huterian communities were established all over Moravia. 1931J. Horsch Hutterian Brethren i. 10 In the matter of the toleration of the Hutterian brethren there was a great principle at stake. Ibid. iii. 65 He warned the nobility who still had Hutterites in their service of the consequences, threatening them with imperial disfavor. 1935R. J. Smithson Anabaptists xi. 205 The Anabaptists of the Reformation period survive to the present day not only in the Hutterites but also in the Mennonites. 1953R. Moon This is Saskatchewan 75 To the northwest of Shaunavon are Hutterite communities. 1957Encycl. Brit. IX. 90/2 The Hutterite Brethren, about 300 of whom settled in South Dakota in 1875–77 in three [farm] colonies, grew in size to 93 colonies in 1951. Ibid., The Hutterites support themselves through diversified farming and stock raising. 1959Listener 11 June 1039/1 The bizarre setting of a Hutterite community in Alberta. 1969Times 9 Jan. 4/4 Today's 15,000 Hutterites, a Protestant sect descended from 440 pioneers who emigrated to North America in the 1870s, are expected to number more than 55 million by a.d. 2168 if the present rate of growth continues. |