Methodism

See also: methodism

English

Etymology

From method +‎ -ism. Fellow students at the University of Oxford called Wesley and his followers "methodists" because they lived and practiced their faith methodically; Wesley adopted the designation.[1]

Noun

Methodism (uncountable)

The Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley in 18th-century England.
Any of several related movements.

Hypernyms

Protestantism

Translations

Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley

Basque: metodismo
Bulgarian: методизъм m (metodizǎm)
Catalan: metodisme m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 循道宗 (xúndàozōng)
Czech: metodismus m
Danish: metodisme c
Dutch: methodisme (nl) n
Esperanto: metodismo
Finnish: metodismi (fi)
French: méthodisme (fr) m
German: Methodismus m
Greek: μεθοδισμός (el) m (methodismós)
Hungarian: metodizmus
Italian: metodismo m
Japanese: メソジスト (mesojisuto)

Korean: 감리교 (ko) (gamnigyo)
Macedonian: методизам m (metodizam)
Norwegian: metodisme m
Polish: metodyzm m
Portuguese: metodismo (pt) m
Romanian: metodism (ro) n
Russian: методи́зм (ru) m (metodízm)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: методизам m

Roman: metodizam (sh) m
Slovak: metodizmus m
Slovene: metodizem m
Spanish: metodismo (es) m
Swedish: metodism (sv) c
Ukrainian: методи́зм m (metodýzm)

References

Liam Iwig-O'Byrne, How Methodists Were Made: "The Arminian Magazine" (2008, →ISBN

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[1] Liam Iwig-O'Byrne, How Methodists Were Made: "The Arminian Magazine" (2008, →ISBN