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Methodism
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methodism
English
Etymology
From en method ism. Fellow students at the University of Oxford called Wesley and his followers "methodists" because they lived and practiced their faith methodically; Wesley adopted the designation.Liam Iwig-O'Byrne, How Methodists Were Made: "The Arminian Magazine" (2008, 0549556923)
Pronunciation
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Knabrupt-Methodism.wav General American
Noun
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The Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley in 18th-century England.
en Colin Woodard 15 American nations New York Penguin 2011 978-1-101-54445-7 Far more Yankees shifted to Methodism, an eighteenth-century splinter from the Anglican Church with an emphasis on effecting social change[.]
Any of several related movements.
Hypernyms
Protestantism
Translations
Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley
Asturian: ast metodismu m
Basque: eu metodismo
Belarusian: be метады́зм m
Bulgarian: bg методизъм m
Catalan: ca metodisme m
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 循道宗 Xúndàozōng, cmn 衛理宗 Wèilǐzōng
Czech: cs metodismus m
Danish: da metodisme c
Dutch: nl methodisme n
Esperanto: eo metodismo
Estonian: et metodism
Finnish: fi metodismi
French: fr méthodisme m
Galician: gl metodismo m
German: de Methodismus m
Greek: el μεθοδισμός m
Hungarian: hu metodizmus
Italian: it metodismo m
Japanese: ja メソジズム mesojizumu
Korean: ko 감리교(監理敎)
Latvian: lv metodisms m
Lithuanian: lt metodìzmas m
Macedonian: mk методизам m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb metodisme m
Nynorsk: nn metodisme m
Polish: pl metodyzm m
Portuguese: pt metodismo m
Romanian: ro metodism n
Russian: ru методи́зм m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh методизам m
Latin: sh metodizam m
Slovak: sk metodizmus m
Slovene: sl metodizem m
Spanish: es metodismo m
Swedish: sv metodism c
Ukrainian: uk методи́зм m
See also
References
en Methodism