| 单词 | yearly meeting |
| 释义 | > as lemmasYearly Meeting Yearly Meeting n. (in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)) a national or regional assembly held annually to deal with legislation and questions of policy; an administrative body which meets at such an assembly.Typically composed of the members of a number of smaller meetings, such as Quarterly Meetings (quarterly meeting n. 1a) or local Monthly Meetings (Monthly Meeting at monthly adj. and n. Compounds). ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > council > Quaker > [noun] monthly meeting1641 quarterly meeting1675 Yearly Meeting?1680 ?1680 J. Bullock Testimony against 66 Judges call'd Quakers 4 The sence and admonition of the last yearly Meeting, writ in great love that they might return, and be reconciled to their Brethren. 1714 in Jrnl. Friends Hist. Soc. (1918) 28 Thence into Maryland to friends yearly-meeting at Tradaven-Creek..wherein Truth was plentifully afforded to ye bowing of many souls here. 1831 in S. B. Weeks Southern Quakers & Slavery (1896) xi. 300 There is not a school in the limits of the [North Carolina] Yearly Meeting that is under the care of a committee of either monthly or preparative meeting. 1923 E. B. Emmott Short Hist. Quakerism xi. 171 The proposal for a General Meeting for the whole country (which we now call the Yearly Meeting) came in the first instance from Durham Friends..in 1659. 1974 G. Hubbard Quaker by Convincement i. iii. 41 Through the queries answered in writing four times a year by Monthly Meetings, the Yearly Meeting kept a watchful eye on departures from the norm. 1999 Friend 23 July 8/3 I was reminded at Yearly Meeting that more children in the UK than ever before live lives without love. < as lemmas |
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