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Jehovah's Witnesses definition

Jehovah's Witnesses

a millenarian, actively proselytizing Christian sect founded by Charles T. Russell (1852-1916)

Etymology: name adopted after Isa. 43:10, “Ye are my witnesses”

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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