Methodists
Noun
Meaning
a Protestant denomination founded on the principles of John Wesley and Charles Wesley
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Examples
"You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense, I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist." - Pat Robertson, The 700 Club, January 14, 1991.
The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.
In my family, we were Americans, we were Republicans and we were Methodists.
American Presbyterians and Methodists arrived in the 1880s and were well received.
Also, a disproportionate number of Methodists take part in inter-faith dialogue.
At this time, Methodists had not yet broken away from the Anglican Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church was not founded until 1784.