Nazarene
adj, name, noun ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A person from Nazareth.
"While Jenin was starving under curfew, Nazarenes were only twenty minutes away, watching televised footage of their neighbours ‘in solidarity’."
- 2 an inhabitant of Nazareth wordnet
- 3 A member of the Jewish sect of the Nazarenes. historical
"He was formerly with the sect of the Pharisees, but now he is a Nazarene."
- 4 an early name for any Christian wordnet
- 5 A Christian, a follower of Jesus.
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- 6 a member of a group of Jews who (during the early history of the Christian Church) accepted Jesus as the Messiah; they accepted the Gospel According to Matthew but rejected the Epistles of St. Paul and continued to follow Jewish law and celebrate Jewish holidays; they were later declared heretic by the Church of Rome wordnet
- 7 A member of the Church of the Nazarene.
"I have been a Nazarene for several years; I joined the church in 1946."
- 1 Of or pertaining to Nazareth or its people. not-comparable
- 2 Of or relating to the Church of the Nazarene. not-comparable
"Holiness Today is a Nazarene magazine."
- 1 of or relating to the town of Nazareth or its inhabitants wordnet
- 2 of or relating to the Nazarenes or their religion wordnet
- 1 an epithet of Jesus Christ usually
"I stand amazed in the presence / Of Jesus, the Nazarene, / And wonder how He could love me, / A sinner, condemend, unclean."
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More examples"Holiness Today is a Nazarene magazine."
Etymology
In the sense "person from Nazareth", from Ancient Greek Ναζαρηνός (Nazarēnós, “of Nazareth”), an ethnonym of Ναζαρέθ (Nazaréth). In the sense "a member of a certain sect", from Ancient Greek Ναζωραῖος (Nazōraîos), which may or may not be related. For a list of theories as to the further etymology of this word, see the Wikipedia article on ‘Nazarene’.