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单词 mennist
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Mennistn.adj.

Brit. /ˈmɛnɪst/, U.S. /ˈmɛnᵻst/
Forms: 1700s Menist, 1800s– Mennist.
Origin: A borrowing from Dutch. Etymons: Dutch Mennist, Menist.
Etymology: < Dutch Mennist (first half of the 17th cent.), Menist (1701), noun and adjective < Menn- , Men- (in the name of Menno Simonszoon : see Mennonite n. and adj.) + -ist -ist suffix. Compare earlier Mennonite n. and adj., Mennonist n. Compare German Mennist, noun (1668).
U.S. Now historical and rare.
A. n.
= Mennonite n.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Mennonism > [noun] > person
Mennonite1565
Mennonist1645
Mennist1759
1759 E. Shippen Let. 30 May in H. Bouquet Papers (1941) 169 The Nine Waggoners..where [i.e. were] chiefly Menists.
1771 G. Taylor Voy. N. Amer. 170 In the City of Philadelphia you see Churchmen, Quakers, Lutherans, Calvinists, Moravians, Catholics, Menists, [etc.].
1869 Atlantic Monthly Oct. 474/1 The Mennists in many outward circumstances very much resemble the Society of Friends.
1889 W. D. Howells Hazard New Fortunes I. 208 Aren't they something like the Mennists?
1988 T. George Theol. of Reformers vi. 262 The Dutch Anabaptists may well have been called ‘Obbenites’ rather than Mennists or later Mennonites.
B. adj.
= Mennonite adj.
ΚΠ
1869 Atlantic Monthly Oct. 474/1 In the interior of the Mennist meeting, a Quaker-like plainness prevails.
2008 D. Andrews People of Compassion (2012) 37 Out of the violence and counter-violence of Münster, the famous Mennist peace church was born.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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