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English → English (gcide) Definition: Herrnhuter Herrnhuter \Herrn"hut*er\ (h[~e]rn"h[u^]*[~e]r; G. h[e^]rn"h[=oo]*[~e]r), n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of the Moravians; -- so called from the settlement of Herrnhut (the Lord's watch) made, about 1722, by the Moravians at the invitation of Nicholas Lewis, count of Zinzendorf, upon his estate in the circle of Bautzen. [1913 Webster] Moravian \Mo*ra"vi*an\, n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a religious sect called the United Brethren (an offshoot of the Hussites in Bohemia), which formed a separate church of Moravia, a northern district of Austria, about the middle of the 15th century. After being nearly extirpated by persecution, the society, under the name of The Renewed Church of the United Brethren, was re["e]stablished in 1722-35 on the estates of Count Zinzendorf in Saxony. Called also Herrnhuter. [1913 Webster]