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anti-Witness

anti-Witness adjective: opposed or hostile to Jehovah's Witnesses or their beliefs or doctrines.

Adjective

anti-Witness (comparative more anti-Witness, superlative most anti-Witness)

  1. Opposed or hostile to Jehovah's Witnesses or their beliefs or doctrines.
    • The most spectacular manifestation of anti-Witness hostility was a sharp outbreak of violence. In June, 1940, several hundred incidents occurred in which force was directed against Jehovah's Witnesses […]1963, Charles Herman Pritchett, Alan F. Westin, The Third Branch of Government: 8 Cases in Constitutional Politics
    • But it wasn't till he was at Bethel that he began reading them in connection with all the old magazines they had there, and even a few of the anti-Witness books that managed to find their way into little obscure boxes and corners in the library.2014, Steve McRoberts, Falling in Truth: The Education of a Jehovah's Witness, page 329
    Antonyms:
    pro-Witness

Noun

anti-Witness (plural anti-Witnesses)

  1. A person who is opposed or hostile to Jehovah's Witnesses or their beliefs or doctrines.

Antonyms of anti-Witness

Forms of anti-Witness

Adjective
comparativemore anti-Witness
superlativemost anti-Witness
Noun
pluralanti-Witnesses

Origin of anti-Witness

From anti- + Witness.

Questions about anti-Witness

What does anti-Witness mean?
Anti-Witness means opposed or hostile to Jehovah's Witnesses or their beliefs or doctrines.
What part of speech is anti-Witness?
Anti-Witness can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near anti-Witness in the dictionary

  1. anti-westernism
  2. anti-whale
  3. anti-white
  4. anti-whiteness
  5. anti-witchcraft
  6. anti-Witness
  7. anti-Witnesses
  8. anti-woke
  9. anti-worker
  10. anti-Yankeeism
  11. anti-yanquismo

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