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

Doctrine forbids Jehovah's Witnesses, as Jones was then, from receiving blood transfusions in almost all circumstances.

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026

Basoo said there had been no change to its "core position that Jehovah's Witnesses abstain from blood".

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026

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

From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2024

In it, Evans revealed a lot of previously unknown stories of growing up in a strict Jehovah’s Witnesses household, struggling with his sexual identity, performing musical theater and coming late to success.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2024

Over the course of the next year Evelyn became involved with the Watch Tower organization, part of the church of Jehovah’s Witnesses.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela