Plymouth Brethren

American  

plural noun

• Plymouth Brother
  singular

1. a loosely organized body of Christians founded in Plymouth, England, about 1830, having no ordained ministry, no formal creed or ritual, and accepting the Bible as the only guide.

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Plymouth Brethren British  

plural noun

1. a religious sect founded c. 1827, strongly Puritanical in outlook and prohibiting many secular occupations for its members. It combines elements of Calvinism, Pietism, and millenarianism, and has no organized ministry

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Etymology

Origin of Plymouth Brethren

First recorded in 1835–45

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Example Sentences

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Plymouth Brethren

Mr. Wallis, now 74, was raised in what he described as a “very evangelical” family in Detroit, where his parents were lay leaders in a Plymouth Brethren church.

From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2023

A religious group - the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church - has put 30 trade bins in five locations across the city centre which will be filled, then removed by its volunteers.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2022

In 1938, still a teenager, he was brought from Vienna to London where the Plymouth Brethren took him in and provided for him.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 30, 2015

Darby was a founding father of the Plymouth Brethren Church, which has its roots in Anglicanism, and he explored a concept called “dispensationalism.”

From Washington Times ● Jun. 26, 2014

We shall find it among Quakers and Plymouth Brethren, as well as at Rome.

From Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians by John Charles Ryle

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