NAZARENE

noun Etymology: Middle English Nazaren, from Late Latin Nazarenus, from Greek Nazarēnos, from Nazareth Nazareth, Palestine Date: 13th century a native or resident of Nazareth, 2. Christian 1a, a member of the Church of the ~ that is a Protestant denomination deriving from the merging of three holiness groups, stressing sanctification, and following Methodist polity, ~ adjective