Methodism
名词 n.
英文释义
名词 n.
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The Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley in 18th-century England.
— 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.
词形变化
词源
From 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.
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