"Peculiar People" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Etymology: In reference to any of several places in the Bible where "a peculiar people", a people set apart from others, is mentioned, such as Deuteronomy 14:2, 1 Peter 2:9, and Titus 2:14: for example, "For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth" (Deuteronomy 14:2). Head templates: {{en-noun|p|head=Peculiar People}} Peculiar People pl (plural only)
  1. (Christianity) Any of several Christian sects who have used this biblical description as a self-appellation, as:
    The Quakers.     Tags: plural, plural-only Categories (topical): Christianity, Quakerism
    Sense id: en-Peculiar_People-en-noun-en:Quakers Disambiguation of Quakerism: 40 41 19 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English pluralia tantum, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 63 19 19 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 61 17 22 Disambiguation of English pluralia tantum: 62 19 19 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 61 19 19 Topics: Christianity
  2. (Christianity) Any of several Christian sects who have used this biblical description as a self-appellation, as:
    The Amish.     Tags: plural, plural-only Categories (topical): Christianity, Quakerism
    Sense id: en-Peculiar_People-en-noun-en:Amish Disambiguation of Quakerism: 40 41 19 Categories (other): Amish Disambiguation of Amish: 11 80 10 Topics: Christianity
  3. (Christianity) Any of several Christian sects who have used this biblical description as a self-appellation, as:
    (historical) A Christian movement, originally an offshoot of the Wesleyan denomination, founded in 1838 in Rochford, Essex.     Tags: historical, plural, plural-only Categories (topical): Christianity, Quakerism
    Sense id: en-Peculiar_People-en-noun-en:UEC__Union_of_Evangelical_Churches Disambiguation of Quakerism: 40 41 19 Topics: Christianity
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: Chosen People

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