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Mormons

noun

Church founded by Joseph Smith in 1830 with headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah. Synonyms: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Mormon Church.

Mormon

noun

The ancient prophet whose writings were revealed to Joseph Smith who founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Synonym: Latter-Day Saint.

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... had belched fire and lava long, long ago at the birth of Arizona, when the earth was still in the travail of creation. We forded the Little Colorado at Sunset Crossing, a lonely colony, where a few Mormons were the only inhabitants of a vast area of wilderness. We were headed due west toward a mesa rising abruptly from the plateau which we were then traversing. This mesa was again capped by a chain of ...

— Tales of Aztlan • George Hartmann

... mandarin of the old school. But he was intelligent enough to ask me not only about "the twenty-story buildings of New York,'' but "the differences between the various Protestant sects,'' and in particular about "the Mormons and their strength!'' Who could have imagined that the Latter Day Saints of Utah could be known to a Chinese nobleman of Chih-li? Verily, our ...

— An Inevitable Awakening • ARTHUR JUDSON BROWN

... it becomes a cardinal principle of the sect to maintain them. Any neglect of them is regarded as disloyalty and is punished as heresy. Persecution may eventually, as was the case with the Puritans, the Quakers, the Mormons, compel the sect to seek refuge in some part of the world where it may practice its way of life ...

— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park

... been traveling with a large party for mutual security against Indians and Mormons, and so long as the journey lasted Dick had got on fairly well. He was always ready to do odd jobs, and as the draught cattle were growing weaker and weaker, and every pound of weight was of importance, no one grudged him his rations in return for his services; but ...

— Among Malay Pirates - And Other Tales Of Adventure And Peril • G. A. Henty

... God-forsaken country. We discussed you most of the time. Once in a while she'd see a little note in the paper about you, and cut it out and send it to me. I did the same. We heard of you at Flagstaff, Arizona. Then that row you had with the Mormons was the next we knew, but we couldn't write. She said it was pretty tough to hear of you only in some scrape, but I told her your side hadn't been heard from and that gave her a lot of comfort. The set-to you had about the Indians' right to hunt pleased us both. That was a straight case. She said ...

— The Eagle's Heart • Hamlin Garland

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