Definition of John Wesley

1. Noun. English clergyman and founder of Methodism (1703-1791).

Exact synonyms: Wesley
Generic synonyms: Clergyman, Man Of The Cloth, Reverend
Derivative terms: Wesleyan

Lexicographical Neighbors of John Wesley

John Tradescant
John Trumbull
John Tuzo Wilson
John Tyler
John Tyndall
John Uhler
John Updike
John Van Vleck
John Vanbrugh
John Venn
John Wain
John Walker
John Wanamaker
John Wayne
John Webster
John Wesley (current term)
John Wickliffe
John Wiclif
John Wilkes
John Wilkes Booth
John William Strutt
John Witherspoon
John Wyclif
John Wycliffe
John dory
John le Carre
John o' Groats
John the Baptist
John the Divine
John the Evangelist

Literary usage of John Wesley

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1912)
"John Wesley, the father of the doctrinal and practical system of Methodism, ... John Wesley was the son of Samuel Wesley (qv), a graduate of Oxford, ..."

2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1905)
"LIFE OF John Wesley 1820 Few persons could have been found, we think, better qualified for the undertaking than Mr. Southey has shown himself to be. ..."

3. The German Element in the United States with Special Reference to Its by Albert Bernhardt Faust (1909)
"There he was introduced to the Reverend Mr. Spangen- berg, later bishop of the Moravian Church, and to the Moravian pastor, Boehler, from whom, John Wesley ..."

4. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers by Thomas Humphry Ward (1913)
"[John Wesley, founder of 'the people called Methodists,' was the second son of Samuel Wesley, Rector of Epworth. He was bom June 17, I703- Educated at the ..."

5. The Cornhill Magazine by George Smith (1908)
"John Wesley IN HIS OWN DAY. BY CANON OVERTON, DD Two hundred years ago—to be quite accurate, on June 17 (OS), 1703—was born at Epworth Rectory, ..."

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