Maronite

[ mar-uh-nahyt ]

/ ˈmær əˌnaɪt /

noun

a member of a body of Uniates living chiefly in Lebanon, who maintain a Syriac liturgy and a married clergy, and who are governed by the patriarch of Antioch.

Also called Maronite Christian.

Origin of Maronite

1505–15; < Late Latin Marōnīta, named after St. Maron, 4th-century monk, founder of the sect; see -ite¹

Example sentences from the Web for maronite

This happened more than once to right-wing Maronite forces, a left-wing/Palestinian alliance, Israel, and, eventually, even Syria.

Is Syria Being 'Lebanized' or is Lebanon Being 'Syrianized'? |Hussein Ibish |August 29, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
It is a spring of massacres, destruction and violence, as Patriarch Beshara al-Rai, the head of Lebanon's Maronite Church, put it.

The Arab Spring Turns Cold |David Frum |March 8, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
Among the Maronite and Greek sects, their 285priests tell the people that they can forgive sins.

The Women of the Arabs |Henry Harris Jessup
From dark hallways men and women pour forth and hasten to the Maronite church.

Children of the Tenements |Jacob A. Riis

The Maronite clergy exercised an unquestioned influence over their flocks.

Tancred |Benjamin Disraeli
A Maronite woman in the Lebanon mountains, Syria, had lost a baby three or four weeks old,—her first baby boy.

The Child in the Midst |Mary Schauffler Labaree
The northern passes are not guarded by Maronite or by Druse.'

Tancred |Benjamin Disraeli

British Dictionary definitions for maronite

Maronite

/ (ˈmærəˌnaɪt) /

noun

Christianity a member of a body of Uniats of Syrian origin, now living chiefly in Lebanon

Word Origin for Maronite

C16: from Late Latin Marōnīta, after Maro, 5th-century Syrian monk

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