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Definition of Dunkers
1. Noun. A Baptist denomination founded in 1708 by Americans of German descent; opposed to military service and taking legal oaths; practiced trine immersion.
Generic synonyms: Baptist Denomination
Member holonyms: Dunkard, Dunker, Tunker
Definition of Dunkers
1. Noun. (plural of Dunker) ¹
2. Noun. (plural of dunker) ¹
3. Verb. (third-person singular of dunker) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dunkers
1. dunker [n] - See also: dunker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dunkers
Literary usage of Dunkers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Historical Writings of John Fiske by John Fiske (1902)
"The Mennonites were followed by the dunkers, a sect of German Baptists who came
to Pennsylvania between 1719 and 1729, leaving none of ..."
2. The Annals of America: From the Discovery by Columbus in the Year 1492, to by Abiel Holmes (1829)
"He is numbered among the benefactors of 1 Adams, View of Religions, Art. dunkers.
It was founded by a German at Ephrata, in Pennsylvania. for intellectual ..."
3. The Civil Law and the Church by Charles Zebina Lincoln (1916)
"... commonly called dunkers, for the exclusive use forever of the German Baptist
Society. The deed did not express that it was for a church, and it was held ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... and the dunkers (Conestoga, Ephrata). From these early Pennsylvania settlers
and their descendants many Americans of note have sprung, as Bayard Taylor, ..."
5. Men and Times of the Revolution: Or, Memoirs of Elkanah Watson, Including by Elkanah Watson, Winslow Cossoul Watson (1856)
"Hoogland—La Fayette—Moravian Brethren—Rope Ferry— German Population—Reading,
Penn, dunkers, Lancaster—Enter Virginia—Slaves. • ON the 4th of September, ..."
6. An Account of the Manners of the German Inhabitants of Pennsylvania by Benjamin Rush (1875)
"From them a sect has arisen, who hold with the above principals and ceremonies,
the necessity of immersion baptism, hence they are called dunkers, ..."
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