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Maronite
[ mar-uh-nahyt ]
noun
- 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
- Christianity a member of a body of Uniats of Syrian origin, now living chiefly in Lebanon
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of Maronite1
Example Sentences
This happened more than once to right-wing Maronite forces, a left-wing/Palestinian alliance, Israel, and, eventually, even Syria.
It is a spring of massacres, destruction and violence, as Patriarch Beshara al-Rai, the head of Lebanon's Maronite Church, put it.
Wrote to ——, a friendly Maronite bishop, to give me whatever information he might be able to procure respecting Shidiak.
The Maronite clergy exercised an unquestioned influence over their flocks.
In March, 1865, a Maronite woman called at the Press to buy a book of poems, to teach her boy to read.
During that fast of 1866, a Maronite fellah came into Beirût driving a herd of swine to the market.
The Maronite candidate for the church sat smiling, as if he thought he would now be received at once.
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