Herrnhuter

English

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.

Noun

Herrnhuter (plural Herrnhuters)

  1. (historical) A member of the Moravian Church.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for Herrnhuter in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

German

Noun

Herrnhuter m (genitive Herrnhuters, plural Herrnhuter, feminine Herrnhuterin)

  1. Herrnhuter (male or of unspecified sex)
  • herrnhutisch (= brüderisch)

See also
  • Brüdergemeinde
  • Brüdergemeine (= Herrnhuter)
  • Mennonitenbrüdergemeinde, Mennoniten-Brüdergemeinde
  • Mennoniten-Brüdergemeine (obsolete spelling)
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