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Definition of Mormon church

1. Noun. Church founded by Joseph Smith in 1830 with headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mormon Church

Literary usage of Mormon church

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

1. Annual Report of the Attorney-general of the United States by United States Dept. of Justice, United States Attorney-General (1892)
"EXHIBIT P.—Report of the Attorney of the United States for the district of Utah upon the mormon church litigation. OFFICE OF UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"A stake is a division of the mormon church, organized in such a way as to constitute almost a church" in itself; in each stake are subdivisions called wards ..."

3. The Police Power, Public Policy and Constitutional Rights by Ernst Freund (1904)
"The mormon church case.—In the case of the mormon church the Supreme Court had to deal with an act of federal legislation. The Church of Jesus Christ of the ..."

4. The Treaty Making Power of the United States by Charles Henry Butler (1902)
"§62. i The acts of Congress referred to in the mormon church case are as ... 7-9, 130 US Rep., confiscating the property of the mormon church which was ..."

5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"The attitude of the mormon church toward the law is manifest from An Ejn.stle of the First Presidency to the officers and members of the church, Oct. 6, ..."

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