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Schwenkfelder

[ shfengk-fel-der, shvengk- ]

noun

  1. a member of a Protestant group that emigrated in 1734 from Germany and settled in Pennsylvania, where they organized the Schwenkfelder Church.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Schwenkfelder1

1780–90, Americanism; < German, after Kaspar von Schwenkfeld (1490–1561), German mystic; -er 1

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