Plymouth Brethren
[See Brethren in brother 3 b.]
A religious body calling themselves ‘the Brethren’, recognizing no official order of ministers, and having no formal creed, which arose at Plymouth c 1830. Plymouth brother, a member of this body.
| 1842 R. M. Beverley Ch. Eng. Exam. (1844) 1 The views of those whom he chooses to call ‘the Plymouth Brethren’. 1865 Chambers' Encycl. VII. 614 The Plymouth Brethren reject every distinctive appellation but that of Christians. 1879 Stevenson Trav. Cevennes, Valley of Tarn, He was, as a matter of fact, a Plymouth Brother. |
Hence Plymouth-brethrenism, Plymouth-brotherism; also Plymouth sister.
| 1848 J. H. Newman Loss & Gain viii. 197 Where else will you go? Not surely to Methodism or Plymouth-brotherism. 1860 C. M. Yonge Hopes & Fears II. xiii. 250 She is a Plymouth sister. 1874 C. M. Yonge Life J. C. Patteson I. v. 161 Primitive Methodism and Plymouth Brethrenism supplied the void. 1879 Croskery (title) Plymouth Brethrenism, a refutation. |