Mennonite
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7.2
- proper noun
- /ˈmɛnəˌnaɪt/
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menonita
- I know, as an outsider to Mennonite life, that I have a tendency to romanticize Mennonites.
- Mennonite Church
- Mennonite community
- Mennonite and Brethren
Why is it that Mennonites, this is, these are these groups in the US that live this very traditional lifestyle, right?
- Why is it that Mennonites, this is, these are these groups in the US that live this very traditional lifestyle, right?
- It's a, it's a stereotype for conflict because my favorite example is the Mennonite Museum in Ohio.
Examples
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I was just wondering if your cooperation will cost you something in the Mennonite community.
Fiction book (1996) -
Others emphasized ethnic understandings, describing the welcome of a Swiss Mennonite leader as "speaking for the homeland."
Academic text (2006) -
And I come from a very Mennonite area in Ontario.
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Even more important, however, than public leadership in ensuring continuity in the Mennonite communities was the family.
Academic text (1992) -
The importance of the family in the Mennonite migration also reflected the roles of women in this process.
Academic text (1992) -
Her father was a professor of theology and taught at the Mennonite Seminary in Amsterdam.
Academic text (1995) -
As Mennonite literature shows, Paraguay is a place with a rich and complicated Mennonite history beginning in the early twentieth century.
Academic text (2006) -
State governors greeted the Mennonite delegation, and railroad agents accompanied them on a tour of several states.
Academic text (1992) -
A third financial preoccupation of the Mennonite farm households was to produce commodities for the marketplace.
Academic text (1992) -
As a member of a Mennonite community, she values simple living and pacifism.
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Mennonite = Menno (opaque) = Menno + ite
The denominal formation from a personal name does not transparently convey the group's characteristics to typical learners.
Etymology
The name Mennonite is formed from the leader Menno and the ending -ite, which means 'follower' or 'member', just like in Israelite. So a Mennonite is a person who follows Menno's peaceful Christian way of life and often lives simply.