brethren
IPA: brˈɛðrʌn
noun
- (poetic) kinsmen
- (figuratively) The body of members, especially of a fraternal, religious or military order.
- (Protestantism) Members of any congregation in the Anabaptist tradition of the Schwarzenau Brethren, practicing credobaptism and committed to nonresistance and nonviolence, some of whom may wear plain dress and shun modern technology.
- (specifically) Members of the Church of the Brethren.
adjective
- Of or akin to; related; like
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Examples of "brethren" in Sentences
- The rule was requested by the brethren.
- He was a member of the Church of the Brethren.
- Manchester is a college of the Church of the Brethren.
- She is an ordained minister in the Church of the Brethren.
- A year later he was Licensed to Exhort in the United Brethren Church.
- The Plymouth Brethren seceded from the established church in the 1820s.
- The school was founded in 1899 by members of the Church of the Brethren.
- Huntington serves as the home to the Church of the United Brethren in Christ.
- He is buried in the cemetery of the Locust Grove Church of the Brethren in Mt.
- The college was founded in 1847 by the Church of the United Brethren in Christ.
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