Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the denomination of Moravians or United Brethren: so called in Germany from the village built by them on the estate of Count von Zinzendorf in Saxony, named Herrnhut, and since serving as the headquarters of the body. See
Moravian .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Eccl. Hist.) One of the Moravians; -- so called from the settlement of Herrnhut (the Lord's watch) made, about 1722, by the Moravians at the invitation of Nicholas Lewis, count of Zinzendorf, upon his estate in the circle of Bautzen.
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- noun historical A member of the Moravian Church.
Etymologies
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Examples
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He should be glad to believe that the Herrnhuter was his grandfather or great-grandfather.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 Various
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His earlier education took place in institutions of the Moravian Brethren (Herrnhuter), a strict pietist sect, where he also pursued broader humanistic interests however.
Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher Forster, Michael 2002
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But, alas! it was merely in externals that the gentleman had split with the Community; in his heart he was yet entirely a Herrnhuter.
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Philos parents had been in connexion with the Herrnhuter Community: in his library were many writings of Count Zinzendorfs.
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It may be that he had special reasons for reticence on this great subject, especially in a communication to such an ardent Herrnhuter as his sister, but it is most likely that he conscientiously refrained from anything explicit on a subject on which he seems at the time to have had no very settled conviction.
The Theology of Schleiermacher: A Condensed Presentation of His Chief Work, "The Christian Faith" 1862-1929 1911
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His recollections of his instruction among the Herrnhuter are full of beauty and pathos.
An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant Edward Caldwell Moore 1900
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Separatists, Pietists, Herrnhuter (Moravians), Quiet-in-the-Land, and others differently named and characterized, sprang up, all of whom are animated by the same purpose of approaching the Deity, especially through Christ, more closely than seemed to them possible under the forms of the established religion.
Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1790
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a Herrnhuter again -- only of a higher order [italics mine].
The Theology of Schleiermacher: A Condensed Presentation of His Chief Work, "The Christian Faith" 1862-1929 1911
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+ The Herrnhuter were founded by Count Nicholas of Zinzendorf (b.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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