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单词 plymouth brother
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Plymouth brothern.

Brit. /ˌplɪməθ ˈbrʌðə/, U.S. /ˈplɪməθ ˈbrəðər/
Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Plymouth , brother n.
Etymology: < the name of Plymouth (see Plymouth n.) + brother n., after Plymouth Brethren n. Compare slightly later Plymouthite n.With Plymouth-brotherism n. at Derivatives compare slightly earlier Plymouth Brethrenism n.
A member of the Plymouth Brethren.
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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.

Derivatives

Plymouth-brotherism n. Obsolete rare = Plymouth Brethrenism n.
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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).
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