Dutch Reformed

American  

adjective

1. of or relating to a Protestant denomination DutchReformedChurch, founded by Dutch settlers in New York in 1628 and renamed the Reformed Church in America in 1867.

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Etymology

Origin of Dutch Reformed

An Americanism dating back to 1815–25

Example Sentences

As head of the Dutch Reformed Church’s program to reach Jews, Willem kept in touch with these things.

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And in the Dutch Reformed Church, a minister’s first sermon in his first church was the most solemn, joyous, emotional occasion that an unemotional people could conceive.

From Literature

Father, Betsie, and I were on our way to the Dutch Reformed church in Velsen, a small town not far from Haarlem, where Peter had won the post of organist in competition against forty older and more experienced musicians.

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I stared at this Dutch Reformed clergyman.

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Since 1967 it has been governed by the Dutch Reformed Church.

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