单词 | Jehovah's Witness |
释义 | Jehovah's Witness From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishJehovah's WitnessJeˌhovah’s ˈWitness noun [countable]RRCa member of a religious organization that believes the end of the world will happen soon and sends its members to people’s houses to try to persuade them to joinExamples from the CorpusJehovah's Witness• Thereafter she resumed a close relationship with her father, who was not a Jehovah's Witness.• Dmitry Sokolov, a Jehovah's Witness, had been imprisoned between 1988 and 1990 for refusing his call-up papers.• I also had a stroke of luck when a Jehovah's Witness called at the door earlier.• The car passenger Mark Southall is another Jehovah's Witness and also refused blood.• But a leading Jehovah's Witness claimed tonight that other treatments are available which don't break the rules of their faith.• Transfusion row: Jehovah's Witness who refused blood dies after crash.• A life saving operation was hampered because their Jehovah's Witness religion demands that they refuse blood transfusions. |
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