Methodist
Americannoun
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a member of the largest Christian denomination that grew out of the revival of religion led by John Wesley: stresses both personal and social morality and has an Arminian doctrine and, in the U.S., a modified episcopal polity.
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(lowercase) a person who relies greatly or excessively on methods or a particular method.
adjective
noun
adjective
Other Word Forms
- Methodistically adverb
- anti-Methodist adjective
- non-Methodist noun
- non-Methodistic adjective
- pre-Methodist adjective
- pro-Methodist adjective
- pseudo-Methodist adjective
Etymology
Origin of Methodist
Example Sentences
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Like most young people of their time, the sisters also grew up with popular ghost stories like author Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and Methodist founder John Wesley’s family haunt, “Old Jeffrey.”
From Literature
In La Verne: In a scene filmed at La Verne United Methodist Church, Benjamin Braddock, played by Dustin Hoffman, barges into a church and interrupts a wedding, screaming, “Elaine, Elaine,” in “The Graduate.”
The park, which began as a Methodist camp in the 1890s, was bought by Northern California real estate mogul Edward Biggs in 2005.
From Los Angeles Times
He is a graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder and Southern Methodist University School of Law.
He was married in the United Methodist Church in 2012, according to invitations posted to Instagram.
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