Jehovah's Witnesses

American  

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.

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Jehovah's Witnesses Cultural  

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.

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Example Sentences

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

From New York Times

He was 19 when he came out to his parents, who are practising Jehovah's Witnesses to this day.

From BBC

He said Jehovah's Witnesses were very peaceful.

From BBC

How does a skinny, gay Welsh kid raised in a strict Jehovah’s Witnesses community become a famous Hollywood action movie star with credits on “Clash of the Titans” and the “Fast & Furious” franchise?

From Los Angeles Times

Growing up in the South Wales village of Aberbargoed, he accompanied his mother on door-knocking duties, an obligation of their Jehovah’s Witnesses religion.

From Los Angeles Times