Mennonite meaning

mĕn'ə-nīt'
A member of an Anabaptist church characterized by nonviolence, refusal to swear oaths, and often simplicity of life.
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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.
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Of or designating this denomination.
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Origin of mennonite

  • German Mennonit after Menno Simons (1492–1559), Frisian religious leader
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Mennonite Sentence Examples

  • Before the year was out, yielding to the prayer of six or eight persons who had freed themselves from the Munster spell, he agreed to become their minister, and was set apart (January 1537) to the eldership at Groningen, with imposition of hands by Obbe Philipsz, who is regarded as the actual founder of the Mennonite body.

  • The General Baptists were Arminian, owing to the influence of the Mennonite Anabaptists.

  • Oaths and the taking of life were absolutely forbidden; hence the magistracy and the army were for the Mennonite unlawful callings; but magistrates were to be obeyed in all things not prohibited by Scripture.

  • Barclay, Inner Life of Religious Societies of the Commonwealth (1876) for a good account of Mennonite anticipations of Quaker views and practices; F.

  • UNITED BRETHREN IN CHRIST, 1 an American religious sect which originated in the last part of the 18th century under the leadership of Philip William Otterbein (1726-1813), pastor of the Second Reformed Church in Baltimore, and Martin Boehm (1725-1812), a Pennsylvanian Mennonite of Swiss descent.

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