单词 | dunker church |
释义 | > as lemmasDunker church attributive with the sense ‘of, relating to, or characteristic of the German Baptist Brethren or its members’, as Dunker Baptist, Dunker church, etc.Compare earlier attributive use of Dunkard n. ΚΠ 1822 Pittsburgh Recorder 2 May 225/2 Those who call themselves Christians, & Dunker Baptists. 1842 Jonesborough (Tennessee) Whig 31 Aug. We were at the Dunker meeting on Sabbath last, and heard a sermon of near two hours length. 1863 Rep. Joint Comm. Conduct War (U.S. Congr.) 626 The third brigade was placed near the Dunker church on the field. 1877 ‘M. Twain’ Let. 25 Aug. (1917) I. 308 Aunty Cord is a violent Methodist and Lewis an implacable Dunker-Baptist. 1925 Yearbk. Church of Brethren 39/2 In the present great struggle for world reconstruction why should not ‘simple life’ Dunker doctrine mean as much to the religious world as such names as Ford, Hoover and Dawes mean to the business world? 2009 J. A. Coyne Why Evol. is True v. 134 One example of evolution by drift may be the unusual frequencies of blood types (as in the ABO system) in the Old Order Amish and Dunker religious communities in America. < as lemmas |
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