Mennonite

(menən īt′)

noun

a member of a Protestant denomination, Anabaptist in origins, founded in the Netherlands in the 16th cent.: Mennonites favor plain dress and oppose military service and the holding of public office

Origin: after Menno Simons (c. 1496-1561), a Du reformer

adjective

of or designating this denomination

See Mennonite in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
A member of an Anabaptist church characterized by nonviolence, refusal to swear oaths, and often simplicity of life.

Origin:

Origin: German Mennonit

Origin: , after Menno Simons (1492-1559), Frisian religious leader

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