Huntingdonn.
/ˈhʌntɪŋdən/ (Lady or Countess of) Huntingdon('s) Connection: a Calvinistic Methodist sect founded by the Countess of Huntingdon.
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(Lady or Countess of) Huntingdon('s) Connection1874
1773 J. Wesley Let. 22 Oct. (1931) VI. 51 I am afraid Lady Huntingdon's preachers will do little good wherever they go. They are wholly swallowed up in that detestable doctrine of Predestination, and can talk of nothing else.]
1874 J. H. Blunt Dict. Sects 205/1 Huntingdon Connexion, a sect of Calvinistic Methodists... Its history dates from the year 1748.
1884 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. IV. i. 241/2 The denomination which rose out of his zealous labours was generally called..the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion... Called also Lady Huntingdon's Connexion and Huntingdonians.
Derivatives
Huntingˈdonian adj. and n.
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Huntingdoniana1800
(Lady or Countess of) Huntingdon('s) Connection1874
society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Methodism > Methodist sects and groups > [adjective] > Huntingdonian
Huntingdoniana1800
a1800 M. Robinson Mem. (1803) I. 90 Though Mr Harris was not a disciple of the Huntingdonian School, he was a constant church visitor on every Sunday.
1847 W. Howitt Homes & Haunts Brit. Poets II. 21 The Methodist and the Huntingtonian had..become successful rivals.
1884 [see main sense]. 1970 Brewer's Dict. Phrase & Fable (rev. ed.) 556/2 Huntingdonians, members of ‘the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion’, a sect of Calvinistic Methodists founded in 1748... The churches founded by the countess..are mostly affiliated with the Congregational Union.
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