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Smectymnuans

Smectymnuans is the plural of Smectymnuan.

Meaning of Smectymnuan

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

Questions about Smectymnuans

What is Smectymnuans the plural of?
Smectymnuans is the plural of Smectymnuan.

Words near Smectymnuans in the dictionary

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

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