amish

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English - Turkish
Modern hayatın getirilerini kullanmadan yaşayan Mennonite dininin Amerikalı mensupları

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English - English
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A strict Anabaptist sect living mainly in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana
a Christian religious group who follow a type of Christianity that has many strict rules about behaviour. For example they must wear old-fashioned clothes and must not use modern inventions such as telephones, cars, or televisions. They have their own land in Pennsylvania and Ohio, where they live separately from other people. Member of a conservative Christian group in North America known as the Old Order Amish Mennonite Church. The Amish originated in 1693-97 as followers of the Mennonite elder Jakob Ammann (1644?-c. 1730) in Switzerland, Alsace, and Germany. He taught that lying was grounds for excommunication (which meant being shunned by all other Mennonites), that clothing should be uniform and beards untrimmed, and that the state church should be avoided. Migration to North America and assimilation eliminated the Amish in Europe. They settled in Pennsylvania in the 18th century. After 1850 they split into "Old Order" (traditional) and "New Order" (now the Mennonite churches). Old Order Amish now live in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Illinois, and Kansas. Adults are baptized and admitted to formal church membership at age 17 to
pertaining to the quilts made by religious cultures of eastern Pennsylvania and the Midwest Typical of this style are dark rich fabrics, always solids, the heavy use of black as a background, striking geometric patterns, and wide, plain borders
Services are in Pennsylvania Dutch (a German dialect) and some English. Though similar in theology to Mennonites, Amish wear modest, old-fashioned clothing and reject modern technology, including automobiles and telephones
an American follower of the Mennonite religion
{i} strict Mennonite Protestant sect that settled in the United States and Canada during the 18th century
n 1 A small sect which broke away from the Mennonite Church to follow a life of separation from the world 2 What Mennonites are most certainly not adj Anything excessively conservative or old-fashioned What are you, Jedediah, Amish? Get yourself a sport coat with proper lapels
Religious sect founded by Jacob Ammann, Erlenbach, Switzerland, 1693 Religiously oriented in their world outlook It exists today as a rural subculture within the modern state, exhibiting distinctiveness, smallness, homogeneity and all-providing self-sufficiency
There are several branches of Amish Mennonites in the United States
The Amish Mennonites
Of, pertaining to, or designating, the followers of Jacob Amman, a strict Mennonite of the 17th century, who even proscribed the use of buttons and shaving as "worldly conformity"

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amish sect
an orthodox Anabaptist sect separated from the Mennonites in late 17th century; settled chiefly in south eastern Pennsylvania
Turkish - English
the amish
amish

    Hyphenation

    A·mish

    Turkish pronunciation

    eymîş

    Pronunciation

    /ˈāməsʜ/ /ˈeɪmɪʃ/

    Etymology

    () From the name of the Swiss preacher Jakob Amman (1645-1730).
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