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Smectymnuan

Smectymnuan noun: a member of Smectymnuus, a group of Puritan clergymen active in England in 1641.

Noun

Smectymnuan (plural Smectymnuans)

  1. (historical) A member of Smectymnuus, a group of Puritan clergymen active in England in 1641.
    • They are shoutings of a layman expecting the fall of the besieged Jericho, but with no more definite preadvertisement of the policy that should follow the fall than was implied in the fact that the priests who were loudest in blowing the rams' horns for the surrender were Milton's five Presbyterian...1871, David Masson, The Life of John Milton: 1638-1643

Forms of Smectymnuan

pluralSmectymnuans

Origin of Smectymnuan

From Smectymnuus + -an.

Questions about Smectymnuan

What does Smectymnuan mean?
Smectymnuan means a member of Smectymnuus, a group of Puritan clergymen active in England in 1641.
What part of speech is Smectymnuan?
Smectymnuan is a noun.
What is the plural of Smectymnuan?
The plural of Smectymnuan is Smectymnuans.

Words near Smectymnuan in the dictionary

  1. smectite
  2. smectites
  3. smectitic
  4. smectogen
  5. smectogens
  6. Smectymnuan
  7. Smectymnuans
  8. Smectymnuus
  9. Smeddle
  10. smeddum
  11. Smedley

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