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Oxford Group

American  

noun

  1. an organization founded at Oxford University in 1921 by Frank Buchman, advocating absolute morality in public and private life.


Oxford Group British  

noun

  1. an early name for Moral Rearmament

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His mother retired as an administrative assistant at the Oxford Group, a real estate appraisal company in New York.

From New York Times Sep. 9, 2018

The Oxford Group has been engaged, for more than a decade, in "doing something" about the lives of its members.

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It was not until 1921 that he hit his stride by forming the Oxford Group at England's Oxford University.

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It was at those Oxford Group meetings that Houck befriended Bill Wilson, a.k.a.

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For some reason, the Old World has so far been kinder than the New to the cultists of the Oxford Group.

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