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Maronite [mar-uh-nahyt] EXAMPLES|WORD ORIGIN 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. Liberaldictionary.com
Origin of Maronite 1505–15; Late Latin Marōnīta, named after St. Maron, 4th-century monk, founder of the sect; see -ite1 Also called Maronite Christian. Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for maronite Contemporary Examples of 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
It is a spring of massacres, destruction and violence, as Patriarch Beshara al-Rai, the head of Lebanon’s Maronite Church, put it.
David Frum
March 8, 2012
Historical Examples of maronite
The northern passes are not guarded by Maronite or by Druse.’
Benjamin Disraeli
Will not this Maronite manifestation put you wrong with the Druses?’
Benjamin Disraeli
A Druse disliked a Maronite Christian, so he went quietly and knifed him.
Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne
In Beirut they sought the hospitality of the Maronite patriarch.
Alexander Aaronsohn
Katrina says that many of the Greek and Maronite women sing them too.
Henry Harris Jessup
British Dictionary definitions for maronite Maronite 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 Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Word Origin and History for maronite Maronite
1510s, from Late Latin Maronita, from Maron, name of the founder. A sect of Syrian Christians (4c.), originally Monothelites, subsequently (1216) united with the Catholic Church.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
