Methodism
See also: methodism
English
editEtymology
editFrom method + -ism. Fellow students at the University of Oxford called Wesley and his followers "methodists" because they lived and practiced their faith methodically; Wesley adopted the designation.[1]
Noun
editMethodism (usually uncountable, plural Methodisms)
- The Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley in 18th-century England.
- 2011, Colin Woodard, chapter 15, in American nations, New York: Penguin, →ISBN:
- Far more Yankees shifted to Methodism, an eighteenth-century splinter from the Anglican Church with an emphasis on effecting social change[.]
- Any of several related movements.
Hypernyms
editTranslations
editMethodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley
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