Oneida Community

American  

noun

1. a society of religious perfectionists established by John Humphrey Noyes, in 1848 at Oneida, N.Y., on the theory that sin can be eliminated through social reform: dissolved and reorganized in 1881 as a joint-stock company.

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Example Sentences

You begin with John Humphrey Noyes, founder of the Oneida Community, a utopian religious group in the mid-19th century.

From Salon • May 26, 2025

In fact, Guiteau had so little luck during his five-plus years living at the Oneida Community, a New York religious commune that practiced group marriage, that the women there nicknamed him “Charles Git-out.”

From Washington Post • Aug. 21, 2019

Another religious utopian experiment, the Oneida Community, began with the teachings of John Humphrey Noyes, a Vermonter who had graduated from Dartmouth, Andover Theological Seminary, and Yale.

From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014

The company traces its roots to the Oneida Community, a utopian commune started in 1848 by an eclectic religious leader named John Humphrey Noyes.

From New York Times • Jan. 6, 2012

Out of money, Charles borrowed from his father and his sister and futilely tried to sue the Oneida Community for money he said they owed him.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow