Moravian Definition

mə-rāvē-ən
noun
A person born or living in Moravia.
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The variety of Czech spoken in Moravia.
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A member of a Protestant sect founded in Saxony (c. 1722) by disciples of John Huss from Moravia.
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adjective
Of Moravia or its people or culture.
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Of the religious sect of Moravians.
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Other Word Forms of Moravian

Noun

Singular:
Moravian
Plural:
moravians

Moravian Sentence Examples

  • In form the Moravian Church was soon restored.

  • Salem was founded in 1766 by Friedrich Wilhelm von Marschall (1721-1802), a friend of Zinzendorf, and the financial manager of the board controlling the Moravian purchase made in North Carolina in 1753, consisting of 100,000 acres, and called Wachovia.

  • In 1849 exclusive Moravian control of Salem's industries and trades was abolished; in 1856 land was first sold to others than Moravians, and in the same year the town was incorporated.

  • On the west side are the institution of the sisters of St Vincent; the Ratisbon school; the Montefiore hospice; the British ophthalmic hospital of the knights of St John; the convent and church of the Clarisses; and the Moravian leper hospital.

  • The revival of the Moravian Brethren was German in origin.

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Words Starting With

MMOMOR

Words Ending With

NANIAN

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Words Starting With M and Ending With N

Starts With M & Ends With NStarts With MO & Ends With NStarts With M & Ends With AN

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8 Letter Words8 Letter Words Starting With M8 Letter Words Ending With N