单词 | plymouth brother |
释义 | Plymouth brothern. A member of the Plymouth Brethren. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Plymouth Brethren > [noun] > person Plymouth brother1848 Plymouthite1851 Plymouthist1859 Darbyite1884 Plyma1949 1848 J. H. Newman Loss & Gain iii. vii. 354 At present, Mr. Reding, I am a Plymouth brother. 1858 ‘G. Eliot’ Janet's Repentance x, in Scenes Clerical Life II. 189 A Plymouth Brother, who had a well-furnished grocery-shop,..would occasionally have the pleasure of furnishing sugar or vinegar to orthodox families. 1879 R. L. Stevenson Trav. with Donkey 176 He was, as a matter of fact, a Plymouth Brother. 1912 Dict. National Biogr. at Kelly, William He had leanings to Puseyism, but became a Plymouth brother in 1841. 1991 D. Davie Stud. in Ezra Pound (BNC) 261 Ezra..was as rigidly intelligent as a Plymouth brother; and as vulnerable as a sea-anemone. DerivativesΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Plymouth Brethren > [noun] Plymouthism1840 Brethrenism1841 Plymouth Brethrenism1841 Plymouth-brotherism1848 Darbyism1876 1848 J. H. Newman Loss & Gain viii. 197 Where else will you go? Not surely to Methodism or Plymouth-brotherism. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1848 |
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