Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A term of reproach applied to those Swiss Calvinists who, about 1818, separated from the state church and maintained a strict Calvinistic theology and Methodistic discipline.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A name given in contempt to strict Calvinists in Switzerland, France, and some parts of Germany, in the early part of the 19th century.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun historical, derogatory A strict Calvinist in Switzerland, France, or some parts of Germany, in the early part of the 19th century.

Etymologies

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French, from Old French momer, mommer, to mum, to mask oneself.

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