Maronite meaning

măr'ə-nīt'
A member of an Eastern Catholic church, chiefly of Lebanon, the liturgy of which is written in Syriac.
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A member of an Eastern Church, originally heterodox but now in communion with the Rom. Catholic Church.
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One of a Pre-Arab Semitic Christian ethnoreligious group in the Levant.
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Origin of maronite

  • Medieval Latin marōnīta after Maro , fourth-century ad Syrian religious leader
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • Maron +"Ž -ite, after the Syriac saint Mar Maron, whose followers moved to Mount Lebanon from northern Syria, establishing the Maronite Church.
    From Wiktionary

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.

  • The Maronite scholar, Joseph Simon virgin Assemani (1687-1768), first identified her with the royal and wealthy lady of Alexandria (Eusebius, Hist.

  • ASSEMANI, the name of a Syrian Maronite family of famous Orientalists.

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