Etymology

Bedwardism

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Today it means: The Jamaica Native Baptist Free Church, a religious movement of Jamaica based on Christianity, and according to which Augustown in Jamaica corresponds to Jerusalem for the Western world. Full definition →

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The story

From Bedward + -ism, named after its prophet Alexander Bedward (1859–1930).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.