Smectymnuan

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noun

A member of Smectymnuus, a group of Puritan clergymen active in England in 1641.

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Meanings

nounSmectymnuan (plural Smectymnuans)

plural Smectymnuans

  1. historicalA member of Smectymnuus, a group of Puritan clergymen active in England in 1641.
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    They are shoutings of a layman expecting the fall of the besieged Jericho, but with no more definite preadvertisement of the policy that should follow the fall than was implied in the fact that the priests who were loudest in blowing the rams' horns for the surrender were Milton's five Presbyterian friends, the Smectymnuans.

    1871, David Masson, The Life of John Milton: 1638-1643

Origin

From Smectymnuus + -an.

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APA

Smectymnuan. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Smectymnuan

MLA

“Smectymnuan.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Smectymnuan. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Smectymnuan,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Smectymnuan.

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