Maronite

[mar-uh-nahyt]

noun

1. a member of a body of Uniates living chiefly in Lebanon, who maintain a Syriac liturgy and a married clergy, and who are governed by the patriarch of Antioch.

Maronite

/ ˈmærəˌnaɪt /

noun

1. Christianity a member of a body of Uniats of Syrian origin, now living chiefly in Lebanon

Word History and Origins

Origin of Maronite¹

1505–15; < Late Latin Marōnīta, named after St. Maron, 4th-century monk, founder of the sect; -ite ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of Maronite¹

C16: from Late Latin Marōnīta, after Maro, 5th-century Syrian monk

Example Sentences

It was also the first targeting of the Christian community in Syria since a massacre in 1860, when a conflict broke out between Druze and Maronite Christians under Ottoman rule.

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Gebran Bassil, the leader of Lebanon's biggest Maronite Christian bloc, called him the "face of reform".

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Former Lebanese army chief Aoun's candidacy for the presidency - a role reserved for a Maronite Christian - was backed by many key political parties in parliament as well as the United States, France and Saudi Arabia.

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The displacement, in which some Lebanese have had to seek new shelter multiple times, said Gebran Bassil, who leads the Free Patriotic Movement, a Maronite Christian party allied with Hezbollah, evokes the mass evacuations seen in Gaza.

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Aitou, a Maronite Christian community located in the mountains near the north-western coastal city of Tripoli, was not a place which would have expected to be attacked.

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