| 单词 | jehovah's witness | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasJehovah's Witness  2.   Jehovah's Witness, a member of a fundamentalist millenary sect, the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, founded c1879 (under the name ‘International Bible Students’) by Charles Taze Russell (1852–1916), which rejects institutional religion and refuses to acknowledge the claims of the State when these are in conflict with the principles of the sect. Occasionally  Jehovah Witness. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > Jehovah's Witness > 			[noun]		 witness1931 Jehovah's Witness1933 1932    J. F. Rutherford Health & Life (Watchtower Bible & Tract Soc.) 7  				This commandment is written, in Isaiah 62:10, directed to Jehovah's faithful witnesses.]			 1933    M. S. Czatt 		(title)	  				The International Bible Students, Jehovah's Witnesses. 1941    H. G. Wells You can't be too Careful  iv. i. 223  				A single declared Fascist or Communist or Jehovah's Witness or Single Taxer. 1944    G. B. Shaw Everybody's Polit. What's What? v. 46  				May he choose..a tribal idol as the sect called Jehovah's Witnesses now do? 1955    W. Gaddis Recognitions  ii. i. 305  				It's like Jehovah's Witnesses when you sit down at a table there, everybody comes over. 1961    Times 5 May 20/6  				A rhesus-positive baby whose father, a Jehovah Witness, refused to consent to a blood transfusion. 1962    Lancet 7 Apr. 747/2  				Jehovah Witnesses will usually accept their own blood at operation, though they would not take that of a donor. 1973    Guardian 14 Mar. 7/4  				A mother who divorced her husband because of his adultery is to lose her children because of her religious beliefs. She is a Jehovah's Witness. 1973    Guardian 14 Mar. 7/4  				To bring up the children under the Jehovah Witness cult would tend to isolate them. < as lemmas  | 
	
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