Plymouth Brethren

American  

plural noun

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

Example Sentences

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

Mr. Weidenfeld’s memory of being offered sanctuary in prewar Britain by the Plymouth Brethren, an evangelical Christian denomination, remained with him his whole life.

From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2016

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

Darby, J. L., founder of sect of Plymouth Brethren, 404; split among followers of, 404.

From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by Escott, T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet)