English Explanatory Dictionary

Herrnhuter

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A member of the Moravian Church.

Word forms

Herrnhuter Herrnhuters

Etymology

Borrowed from German Herrnhuter. 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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