Maronite Definition

mărə-nīt
noun
A member of an Eastern Church, originally heterodox but now in communion with the Rom. Catholic Church.
Webster's New World

One of a Pre-Arab Semitic Christian ethnoreligious group in the Levant.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Maronite

Noun

Singular:
Maronite
Plural:
maronites

Origin of Maronite

  • Maron +"Ž -ite, after the Syriac saint Mar Maron, whose followers moved to Mount Lebanon from northern Syria, establishing the Maronite Church.

    From Wiktionary

  • Medieval Latin marōnīta after Maro , fourth-century ad Syrian religious leader

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Maronite Sentence Examples

  • Increase of wealth and the influence of returned emigrants tend to soften Maronite character, and the last remnants of the barbarous state of the community - even the obstinate blood-feud - are disappearing.

  • The communities now recognized are the Latin (or Catholic), Greek (or Orthodox), Armenian Catholic, Armenian Gregorians, Syrian, and United Chaldee, Maronite, Protestant and Jewish.

  • Aleppo is an important consular station for all European powers, the residence of the Greek and Armenian Patriarchs of Antioch, and of Jacobite and Maronite bishops, and a station of Roman Catholic and Protestant missions.

  • Joseph Simon, a Maronite of Mount Lebanon, was born in 1687.

  • When very young he was sent to the Maronite college in Rome, and was transferred thence to the Vatican library.

More Sentences

Find Similar Words

Find similar words to Maronite using the buttons below.

Words Starting With

MMAMAR

Words Ending With

ETEITE

Unscrambles

Maronite

Words Starting With M and Ending With E

Starts With M & Ends With EStarts With MA & Ends With EStarts With M & Ends With TE

Word Length

8 Letter Words8 Letter Words Starting With M8 Letter Words Ending With E