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amish
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Amish \Am"ish\, a. [Written also Omish .] (Eccl. Hist.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the followers of Jacob Amman, a strict Mennonite of the 17th century, who even proscribed the use of buttons and shaving as ``worldly conformity''. There ...
Usage examples of amish.
At the end of the period, stress the sacred need for all believers in the true religion to seek these Amish out and destroy them.
I hope your contribution is somewhat more efficacious than the farce your commissariat precipitated in regard to the so-called Amish threat.
How were we to know that in actuality the Amish are small in number in Betastan, invariably well-thought-of by their neighbors, not interested in accumulating large amounts of property and having no interest whatsoever in government?
The worst result of our misinformation, of course, was neither in Alphaland or Betastan, but in the two or three neutral nations where there are large Amish elements.
There are many Amish groups, many different ways of dealing with technology.
He got drunk, drove cars, along with the best of them in the Amish gangs.
The bloodlines of most Amish, and those Mennonites descended from them, are so tangled and intertwined that most of us are our own cousins.
The lobby of the PennDutch, along with all its rooms, is decorated with genuine Amish furniture and tools.
Grandma Yoder would have laughed at the concept of a ceramic goose with a bow around its neck, and she would have viewed as absolutely idolatrous the little Amish boy and girl figurines that are so popular in gift shops.
For some strange reason, my Amish cousin and the Hollywood whiz kid had hit it off.
And just because he had married Barbara Zook, a six-foot-tall, sturdy gal from one of the western Amish communities, who had the bad habit of speaking her own mind from time to time.
There I was, dressed in traditional Amish garb, about to play the mother of a mad, pitchfork-pitching Amishman, in the same barn that had been built by my own Amish ancestors-peaceful ones, all of them.
And anyway, the new script, while it called for violence and other behavior uncharacteristic of the Amish, was at least devoid of exploitive sex.
Back in the days when my people were Amish, there had been no light in the barn, but my grandparents had joined the Mennonite church and were allowed electricity.
Today, an expertly crafted, authentic Amish quilt will fetch hundreds of dollars on the tourist market.