brethren
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- noun
- /ˈbrɛðərən/
- Formal
:
hermanos
- "Whatever you do to the least of my brethren... you do to me."
- separated brethren
- brethren in the church
- brethren movement
My grandfather was a brethren pastor and and I was I.
- My grandfather was a brethren pastor and and I was I.
- I stand amongst my Hamas brethren.
- God'll like that more than you just giving up some food and then yelling at your fellow brethren.
- And it, and it says this now I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which also you stand.
- So, you know, Tertullian talks about people wearing hair, shirts and ashes, standing humbled before the church, prostating oneself, kissing the brethren's knees.
Examples
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Good morning, brethren.
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Brethren, it was a vision... of the end of time.
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And that, my brethren, is the end of it.
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We must think not only of separated brethren but of the Church herself.
Academic text (2013) -
Sisters and brethren, silence for grace.
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Members of those two formerly hostile tribes became brethren in Islam, and peace entered the city.
Academic text (2015) -
The term "separated brethren" had dramatically shifted to understanding other Christians as "siblings."
Academic text (2013) -
Fear not, brethren.
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Therefore, every possible way must be open to include our separated brethren in the Church's catholicity.
Academic text (2013) -
Good morning, brethren.
Compounds
A Protestant Christian group that opposes military service, refuses to take legal oaths and baptizes by three full immersions
A former Protestant group that joined the Methodist Church to form the United Methodist Church in 1968
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Brethren comes from an old plural of brother that used the -en ending, like in children and oxen. That's why Brethren is used for a group of brothers or the male members of a religious community.