Seventh-Day Adventist
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noun
a member of an Adventist Christian denomination that makes Saturday the chief day of rest and religious observance.
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Origin of Seventh-Day Adventist
1875–80
Words nearby Seventh-Day Adventist
Seventh Amendment, Seventh Avenue, seventh chord, Seventh Commandment, Seventh-Day, Seventh-Day Adventist, Seventh-Day Adventists, seventh heaven, seventh-inning stretch, seventieth, seventy
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How to use Seventh-Day Adventist in a sentence
Meanwhile, the official Seventh-Day Adventist Church has distanced itself from Hudson.
Is Christopher Hudson Behind Angus Jones’s ‘Two and a Half Men’ Attack?|Lizzie Crocker|November 28, 2012|DAILY BEASTThe rather puzzling exception he explained by saying that he was a Seventh-day Adventist.
Virginia: The Old Dominion|Frank W. Hutchins and Cortelle HutchinsHe and I roomed together at one time, when he held a ten nights' debate with a Seventh-day Adventist preacher.
Birth of a Reformation|Andrew ByersSome years ago a young man in Europe—a Seventh-day Adventist—was giving answer for his faith.
Our Day|W. A. Spicer
British Dictionary definitions for Seventh-Day Adventist
Seventh-Day Adventist
noun
Protestant theol a member of that branch of the Adventists which constituted itself as a separate body after the expected Second Coming of Christ failed to be realized in 1844. They are strongly Protestant, believe that Christ's coming is imminent, and observe Saturday instead of Sunday as their Sabbath
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