Definition of Amish sect

1. Noun. An orthodox Anabaptist sect separated from the Mennonites in late 17th century; settled chiefly in southeastern Pennsylvania.

Generic synonyms: Religious Order, Religious Sect, Sect
Member holonyms: Amish

Lexicographical Neighbors of Amish Sect

Amia calva
Amianthum
Amianthum muscaetoxicum
Amianthum muscitoxicum
Amidostomum anseris
Amie
Amiens
Amiidae
Amin
Amina
Amine Precursor Uptake and Decarboxylation
Amir
Amira
Amis
Amish
Amish sect
Amishness
Amman
Ammobium alatum
Ammodytes
Ammodytidae
Ammon
Ammon's fissure
Ammon's horn
Ammon's prominence
Ammonite
Ammotragus
Ammotragus lervia
Ammy
Amniota

Literary usage of Amish sect

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Pennsylvania German Roots Across the Ocean by Marion F. Egge (2000)
"In the case of the ultraconservative amish sect the genealogist is in luck, since there is a scholarly project afoot to index all printed Amish genealogies ..."

2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"... and the condemnation of such luxuries as the use of buttons on clothing, thus founding the " Amish " sect. The fate of the followers of Hutter was most ..."

3. Disease Prevention Through Immunization: Beginning Of Health Care Reform (2004)
"1 HE PEOPLE OF THE AMISH sect are direct descendants of the 16th century Swiss Anabaptists who migrated to the United States in the early 1700s to escape ..."

4. Year Book by Carnegie Institution of Washington (1919)
"... Office independently have included investigations of the "Ishmael" tribe of Indiana, the amish sect of Pennsylvania, albino families of Massachusetts, ..."

5. The Annual American Catalog, 1900-1909 (1906)
"... but in this case they are of the amish sect—people quite as uneducated, narrow-minded, and stolid, but judging from Sa- hina's family, less hard and ..."

6. Year books by Plainfield High School (Plainfield, N.J.) (1919)
"... Office independently have included investigations of the "Ishmael" tribe of Indiana, the amish sect of Pennsylvania, albino families of Massachusetts, ..."

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