Plymouth Brethren

American  

plural noun

Plymouth Brother singular

1. a loosely organized body of Christians founded in Plymouth, England, about 1830, having no ordained ministry, no formal creed or ritual, and accepting the Bible as the only guide.

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Plymouth Brethren British  

plural noun

1. a religious sect founded c. 1827, strongly Puritanical in outlook and prohibiting many secular occupations for its members. It combines elements of Calvinism, Pietism, and millenarianism, and has no organized ministry

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Etymology

Origin of Plymouth Brethren

First recorded in 1835–45

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Plymouth Brethren

Mr. Wallis, now 74, was raised in what he described as a “very evangelical” family in Detroit, where his parents were lay leaders in a Plymouth Brethren church.

From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2023

A religious group - the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church - has put 30 trade bins in five locations across the city centre which will be filled, then removed by its volunteers.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2022

In 1938, still a teenager, he was brought from Vienna to London where the Plymouth Brethren took him in and provided for him.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 30, 2015

Darby was a founding father of the Plymouth Brethren Church, which has its roots in Anglicanism, and he explored a concept called “dispensationalism.”

From Washington Times ● Jun. 26, 2014

Mrs. Barfield, or the Saint, as she was called, belonged, like Esther, to the sect known as the Plymouth Brethren.

From Esther Waters by Moore, George (George Augustus)