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

Only a few of the country's religious groups have adopted policies that are more favourable towards the community, among them the Dutch Reformed Church and the Methodist Church of Southern Africa.

From BBC

His father belonged to the Dutch Reformed Church, and his mother was a Mennonite, although they were not particularly observant.

From Washington Post

As a fourth-generation West Michigander and deacon in her Dutch Reformed Church, Scholten says she is confident that her reputation will usurp what she describes as “baseless attacks by someone that has no connection” to the district.

From Washington Post

Throughout the years of struggle, clerics were at the forefront, raising their banners — Methodist, Catholic or Anglican — against the white authorities who sought biblical justification for apartheid in the teachings of the segregated Dutch Reformed Church.

From New York Times

A member of the smallest and most strictly Calvinist branch of the Dutch Reformed Church, he developed the sense that God had called upon him to unite and save the people of South Africa from a prolonged and bloody conflict.

From Washington Post