Methodism

See also: methodism

English

Etymology

From method +‎ -ism. Fellow students at the University of Oxford called Wesley and his followers "methodists" because they lived and practiced their faith methodically; Wesley adopted the designation.

Noun

Methodism (usually uncountable, plural Methodisms)

1. The Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley in 18th-century England.
   • 2011, Colin Woodard, chapter 15, in American nations, New York: Penguin, →ISBN:

     Far more Yankees shifted to Methodism, an eighteenth-century splinter from the Anglican Church with an emphasis on effecting social change[.]

2. Any of several related movements.

Hypernyms

• Protestantism

Translations

Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley

• Basque: metodismo
• Bulgarian: методизъм m (metodizǎm)
• Catalan: metodisme m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 循道宗 (xúndàozōng)

• Czech: metodismus m
• Danish: metodisme c
• Dutch: methodisme (nl) n
• Esperanto: metodismo
• Finnish: metodismi (fi)
• French: méthodisme (fr) m
• German: Methodismus m
• Greek: μεθοδισμός (el) m (methodismós)
• Hungarian: metodizmus (hu)
• Italian: metodismo (it) m
• Japanese: メソジスト (mesojisuto)
• Korean: 감리교 (ko) (gamnigyo)
• Macedonian: методизам m (metodizam)
• Norwegian: metodisme m
• Polish: metodyzm m
• Portuguese: metodismo (pt) m
• Romanian: metodism (ro) n
• Russian: методи́зм (ru) m (metodízm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: методизам m

  Roman: metodizam (sh) m

• Slovak: metodizmus m
• Slovene: metodizem m
• Spanish: metodismo (es) m
• Swedish: metodism (sv) c
• Ukrainian: методи́зм m (metodýzm)

See also

• Methodism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia