Wesleyan Methodist

American  

noun

1. a member of any of the churches founded on the evangelical principles of John Wesley.

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Etymology

Origin of Wesleyan Methodist

First recorded in 1790–1800

Example Sentences

One Sunday morning in February, Kenneth P. Thompson, the Brooklyn district attorney, showed up with some fellow politicians to celebrate the 249th anniversary of the African Wesleyan Methodist Episcopal Church.

From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2015

Humble Beginnings George Stanley McGovern was born on July 19, 1922, in a parsonage in Avon, S.D., a town of about 600 people where his father, Joseph, was the pastor of the Wesleyan Methodist Church.

From New York Times • Oct. 22, 2012

The participants belonged to the 17-year-old Evangelical Theological Society, whose 750 members are divided about equally between mainstream Protestants and adherents of such sects as the Wesleyan Methodist Church.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is the Rev William Thawbrey, a Wesleyan Methodist minister at Keighley, who subsequently took up work in the mission field in South Africa.

From Adventures and Recollections by Bill o'th' Hoylus End

I was once for three months in a place where there was only a Wesleyan Methodist chapel, and I never set foot in it once, Sir.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard