Herrnhuter - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Borrowed from German Herrnhuter. So called from the settlement of Herrnhut (= the Lord's watch) made, about 1722, by the Moravians at the invitation of Nicholas Lewis, count of Zinzendorf, upon his estate in the circle of Bautzen.

Herrnhuter (plural Herrnhuters)

1. (historical) A member of the Moravian Church.

• “Herrnhuter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Herrnhuter m (strong, genitive Herrnhuters, plural Herrnhuter, feminine Herrnhuterin)

1. (Christianity) Herrnhuter (male or of unspecified gender)

• herrnhutisch (= brüderisch)

• Brüdergemeinde
• Brüdergemeine (= Herrnhuter)
• Mennonitenbrüdergemeinde, Mennoniten-Brüdergemeinde
• Mennoniten-Brüdergemeine (obsolete spelling)