Moravian meaning

mə-rā'vē-ən
A native or inhabitant of Moravia.
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A group of Czech dialects spoken in Moravia.
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A member of a Protestant denomination founded in Saxony in 1722 by Hussite emigrants from Moravia.
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Of or relating to Moravia or its people, dialects, or culture.
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Of or relating to the Moravian denomination.
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Of Moravia or its people or culture.
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Of the religious sect of Moravians.
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A person born or living in Moravia.
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The variety of Czech spoken in Moravia.
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A member of a Protestant sect founded in Saxony (c. 1722) by disciples of John Huss from Moravia.
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Sentence Examples

  • Salem was founded in 1766 by Friedrich Wilhelm von Marschall (1721-1802), a friend of Zinzendorf, and the financial manager of the board controlling the Moravian purchase made in North Carolina in 1753, consisting of 100,000 acres, and called Wachovia.

  • In 1849 exclusive Moravian control of Salem's industries and trades was abolished; in 1856 land was first sold to others than Moravians, and in the same year the town was incorporated.

  • On the west side are the institution of the sisters of St Vincent; the Ratisbon school; the Montefiore hospice; the British ophthalmic hospital of the knights of St John; the convent and church of the Clarisses; and the Moravian leper hospital.

  • (1) Ma.hrisch-Ostrau (Moravian Ostrau), a town in Moravia, 95 m.

  • MORAVIAN BRETHREN, or Moravian CHu4cH, a Christian communion founded in the east of Bohemia.

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