Crossword-Solution: MORAVIAN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Moravian | a. | Of or pertaining to Moravia, or to the United Brethren. See Moravian, n. |
| Moravian | n. | One of a religious sect called the United Brethren (an offshoot of the Hussites in Bohemia), which formed a separate church of Moravia, a northern district of Austria, about the middle of the 15th century. After being nearly extirpated by persecution, the society, under the name of The Renewed Church of the United Brethren, was reestablished in 1722-35 on the estates of Count Zinzendorf in Saxony. Called also Herrnhuter. |
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| Czech dialect | 1 answer |
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| DIALECT CZECH | 10 answers |
| Czech | 14 answers |
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Sentences with MORAVIAN (5)
Had it not been for the superior strength of the hull of the _Moravian_, she would have been broken by the shock and gone down with the 237 passengers she was bringing home from Canada.
But under this title lurked also the far stricter sects of the Bohemian and Moravian Brethren, who differed from the predominant church in more important particulars, and bore, in fact, a great resemblance to the German Protestants.
Very much the same line of argument may be applied to the first attempt of the Moravian Church to establish a settlement on the American Continent.
That the conversion should be instantaneous seems called for on this view, and the Moravian Protestants appear to have been the first to see this logical consequence.
Strange as it may seem, Saint-Foix says that the Moravian brothers, a sect of Anabaptists having great horror of bloodshed, executed their condemned brethren by tickling them to death.
Quotes with MORAVIAN (1)
I was heartily sorry to leave Leh, with its dazzling skies and abounding colour and movement, its stirring topics of talk, and the culture and exceeding kindness of the Moravian missionaries. Helpfulness was the rule.
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Appears in: Newsday.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2001).