Methodism
The Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley in 18th-century England.
Noun
- The Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley in 18th-century England.
- Far more Yankees shifted to Methodism, an eighteenth-century splinter from the Anglican Church with an emphasis on effecting social change[.] - 2011, Colin Woodard, chapter 15, in American nations, New York: Penguin,...
- Any of several related movements.
Origin
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.