Ordnung
/ˈɔːdnʊŋ/
Ordnung noun: a set of rules for Amish and Mennonite living.
Noun
the Ordnung
- A set of rules for Amish and Mennonite living.
- Rather than a packet of rules to memorize, the Ordnung is the “understood” set of expectations for behavior. In the same way that the rules of grammar are learned by children, so the Ordnung, the grammar of order, is absorbed by Amish youth.2003, Donald B. Kraybill, The Riddle of Amish Culture, JHU Press, →ISBN
- According to Beiler, adherence or nonadherence to the ordnung became a full-blown subject of discussion and controversy during the American Civil War, when changes in fashionable clothing and inventions of new farming technologies made it imperative for the Amish to address such issues directly, in...2007, Tom Shachtman, Rumspringa: To Be or Not to Be Amish, North Point Press, →ISBN
Forms of Ordnung
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Origin of Ordnung
From German Ordnung (“order, discipline”), in part through Pennsylvania German.
Questions about Ordnung
- What does Ordnung mean?
- Ordnung means a set of rules for Amish and Mennonite living.
- What part of speech is Ordnung?
- Ordnung is a noun.
- How do you pronounce Ordnung?
- Ordnung is pronounced /ˈɔːdnʊŋ/.
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