Jehovah's Witnesses

noun

1. a Christian sect, founded in the U.S. in the late 19th century, that believes in the imminent destruction of the world's wickedness and the establishment of a theocracy under God's rule.

Jehovah's Witnesses

1. A religious denomination that expects the millennium to begin within a very few years. Jehovah's Witnesses insist on the use of Jehovah as a name for God. They deny the doctrine of the Trinity and consider Jesus to be the greatest of the witnesses of Jehovah.

Example Sentences

Although Catholicism, Evangelical Christianity, and even Jehovah’s Witnesses are widely accepted in Latin households, Lucumí is too often reduced to “witchcraft” or “voodoo,” simply because it exists outside the bounds of whiteness — and, more importantly, in resistance to white supremacy.

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Some 75,000 Polish civilians, 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war, 25,000 Roma and Sinti, as well as Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals and political prisoners were also put to death by the German state at the Auschwitz complex.

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Born in 1952 in Cincinnati, Lemon grew up in Minneapolis in a family of Jehovah’s Witnesses.

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Jehovah's Witnesses reject homosexuality and Evans - the Welsh actor whose films include Beauty and the Beast, The Hobbit, and Fast & Furious 6 - understood he would be expelled from the community if he came out, with implications for his family too.

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He said Jehovah's Witnesses were very peaceful.

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