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Definition of Moravians

Moravian
Moravian Mo*ra"vi*an, a. Of or pertaining to Moravia, or to the United Brethren. See Moravian, n.
Moravian
Moravian Mo*ra"vi*an, n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a religious sect called the United Brethren (an offshoot of the Hussites in Bohemia), which formed a separate church of Moravia, a northern district of Austria, about the middle of the 15th century. After being nearly extirpated by persecution, the society, under the name of The Renewed Church of the United Brethren, was re["e]stablished in 1722-35 on the estates of Count Zinzendorf in Saxony. Called also Herrnhuter.

Meaning of Moravians from wikipedia

- themselves as Moravians, not Czechs. Then, for fear of Germanization, Moravians would begin to publicly refer to themselves as Moravian Czechs — joining...
- Katherine Carte. Religion and Profit: Moravians in Early America (2010) Fogleman, Aaron Spencer. Jesus Is Female: Moravians and the Challenge of Radical Religion...
- Moravian may also refer to: a member or adherent of the Moravian Church, one of the oldest Protestant denominations Moravia, the region Moravians, people...
- the 1730s–40's and because the Moravians welcomed anyone into their church services, most German Pietists viewed Moravians as more than harmless heretics...
- variants of Czech, some Moravians (108,469 in the 2011 census) claim them to be one separate Moravian language. Southeastern Moravian dialects form a dialect...
- o.O. 2010, ISBN 978-80-7422-049-4 (Czech) Tennent, Gilbert (1743). Some Account of the Principles of the Moravians. Moravians (tribe) at Google Books...
- The Moravian Slaves, a po****r narrative about Christian Missions concerning Johann Leonhard Dober and David Nitschmann, describes how these two young...
- East Slavic dialects. In 1866, Hyde Clarke reported that the Moravians viewed the Moravian Vlachs (Wallachians) as an "alien race", but Slavic-speaking...
- Moravian University is a private university in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The institution traces its founding to 1742 by Moravians, descendants of followers...
- exceeds the number recorded in the sources (11 centres of Moravians and 30 centres of "other Moravians" or Merehanos; opinions differ as to how to interpret...