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Methodism en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

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.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) 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[.] 2011, Colin Woodard, chapter 15, in American nations, New York: Penguin, →ISBN:
2. (uncountable, usually) Any of several related movements.

Forms

Hypernyms

Protestantism

Translations (37)

cmn 循道宗 (Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley) · nn metodisme (Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley) · es metodismo (Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley) · pt metodismo (Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley) · da metodisme (Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley) · ca metodisme (Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley) · fi metodismi (Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley) · nb metodisme (Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley) · eu metodismo (Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley) · el μεθοδισμός (Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley) · sv metodism (Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley) · fr méthodisme (Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley) · gl metodismo (Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley) · mk методизам (Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley) · be метады́зм (Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley) · uk методи́зм (Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley) · ko 감리교 (Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley) · bg методизъм (Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley) · hu metodizmus (Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley) · nl methodisme (Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley) · eo metodismo (Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley) · lt metodi̇̀zmas (Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley) · ru методи́зм (Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley) · ro metodism (Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley) · sk metodizmus (Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley) · de Methodismus (Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley) · ja メソジズム (Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley) · sl metodizem (Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley) · it metodismo (Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley) · sh методизам (Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley) · pl metodyzm (Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley) · ast metodismu (Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley) · et metodism (Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley) · cmn 衛理宗 /卫理宗 (Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley) · cs metodismus (Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley) · lv metodisms (Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley) · sh metodizam (Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley)