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Peculiar People

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Peculiar People

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In reference to any of several places in the Bible where "a peculiar people", a people set apart from others, is mentioned, such as Deuteronomy 14:2, 1 Peter 2:9, and Titus 2:14: for example, "For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth" (Deuteronomy 14:2).

noun the Peculiar People

  1. plural, plural only The Quakers.
  2. plural, plural only The Amish.
  3. historical, plural, plural only A Christian movement, originally an offshoot of the Wesleyan denomination, founded in 1838 in Rochford, Essex.

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@misc{peculiar_people_2026,
  title = {Peculiar People},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/peculiar%20people},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}