Get to know Moravians better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Moravians meaning
plural of Moravian
Using Moravians
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of Moravian
- In the example corpus, moravians often appears in combinations such as: the moravians, moravians in.
Context around Moravians
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 6 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 11 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Moravians
- In this selection, "moravians" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, carolina, condemned, german, points and beginning stand out and add context to how "moravians" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include believe they moravians were helping and from the moravians beginning his. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "moravians" sits close to words such as aab, aamer and aave, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with moravians
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Both sides believe they “Moravians” were helping the other. (9 words)
He subsequently departed from the Moravians, beginning his own ministry. (10 words)
Late in 1739 Wesley broke with the Moravians in London. (10 words)
On his journey to America, he had been very impressed with the faith of the German Moravians on board, and when he returned to England he spent time with a German Moravian who was passing through England, Peter Böhler. (39 words)
The Southern food scholar John Egerton wrote that the North Carolina Moravians, like the Pennsylvania Dutch — whom he called “their theological and gastronomical kin” — have maintained a strong baking tradition that is hundreds of years old. (36 words)
After Whitefield condemned Moravians and their practices, his former London printer (a Moravian), called Whitefield “a Mahomet, a Caesar, an imposter, a Don Quixote, a devil, the beast, the man of sin, the Antichrist”. (34 words)
Example sentences (11)
The Southern food scholar John Egerton wrote that the North Carolina Moravians, like the Pennsylvania Dutch — whom he called “their theological and gastronomical kin” — have maintained a strong baking tradition that is hundreds of years old.
Both sides believe they “Moravians” were helping the other.
After Whitefield condemned Moravians and their practices, his former London printer (a Moravian), called Whitefield “a Mahomet, a Caesar, an imposter, a Don Quixote, a devil, the beast, the man of sin, the Antichrist”.
Among Protestants, the large number of Lutherans and Moravians points to the German past of the country, while the number of Anglicans point to the British history of Tanganyika.
Before the expulsion of Germans from Moravia the Moravian German minority also referred to themselves as "Moravians" (Mährer).
He subsequently departed from the Moravians, beginning his own ministry.
In 868, at Metz they agreed definitely to a partition of Lotharingia ; but when Lothair II died in 869, Louis the German was lying seriously ill, and his armies were engaged with the Moravians.
Late in 1739 Wesley broke with the Moravians in London.
On his journey to America, he had been very impressed with the faith of the German Moravians on board, and when he returned to England he spent time with a German Moravian who was passing through England, Peter Böhler.
The Moravians had been partners in mission and dialogue since 2002, but joined as a member communion after the October 2006 consultation on Episkope.
When king Rastislav of Moravia asked Byzantium for teachers who could minister to the Moravians in their own language, Byzantine emperor Michael III chose these two brothers.
Common combinations with moravians
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the moravians 5×
- moravians in 2×