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Aldersgate

Aldersgate proper noun: a ward in the City of London, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3281).

Proper noun

Aldersgate

  1. A ward in the City of London, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3281).
  2. (historical) A religious experience undergone by John Wesley in May 1738.
    • Aldersgate is the expression Methodists use to refer to the powerful spiritual experience in which, in Wesley's own words, his "heart was strangely warmed."2000, Jan Shipps, Sojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years Among the Mormons
    • Consequently, Aldersgate is perceived as one more spiritual experience along the way of salvation2004, Methodist History, volumes 43-44, page 268
  3. A similar experience among his followers.
    • Must our Aldersgate experience help us meet the needs of common men ?1938, Edward Laird Mills, Christian Advocate, Pacific edition, volume 87, page 565
    • Now we know that only the road ahead can be our Aldersgate. And it can happen there, albeit, that road may lead through new battlefields of moral struggle for a Christian society before it emerges upon the heights of spiritual ecstasy.1943, Michigan Christian Advocate, volume 70, page xxii

Origin of Aldersgate

(religious experience): Short for Aldersgate Street, the site of a Moravian meeting at which John Wesley had a religious experience.

Questions about Aldersgate

What does Aldersgate mean?
Aldersgate means a ward in the City of London, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3281).
What part of speech is Aldersgate?
Aldersgate is a proper noun.

Words near Aldersgate in the dictionary

  1. Aldersbrook
  2. Aldersey
  3. Aldersey Green
  4. Aldersey Park
  5. Alderseys
  6. Aldersgate
  7. aldership
  8. alderships
  9. Aldershot
  10. Aldersley
  11. Alderson

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