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Wesley

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Wes·ley  (wsl, wz-), John 1703-1791.
British religious leader who founded Methodism (1738). His brother Charles (1707-1788) wrote thousands of hymns, including "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing."
Wesley [ˈwɛzlɪ]
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1. (Biographies / Wesley, Charles (1707-1788) M, English, RELIGION: Methodist, RELIGION: hymn writer) Charles. 1707-88, English Methodist preacher and writer of hymns
2. (Biographies / Wesley, John (1703-1791) M, English, RELIGION: Methodist) his brother, John. 1703-91, English preacher, who founded Methodism
3. (Biographies / Wesley, Mary (1912 F, British, WRITING: writer) Mary, pseudonym of Mary Aline Siepmann. born 1912, British writer: her novels include The Camomile Lawn (1984) and An Imaginative Experience (1994)
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Noun1.WesleyWesley - English clergyman and brother of John Wesley who wrote many hymns (1707-1788)
Charles Wesley
2.WesleyWesley - English clergyman and founder of Methodism (1703-1791)
John Wesley


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Wesley did; and what he came down for was to tell good news about God to the poor.
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Wines- burg was proud of the hands of Wing Biddlebaum in the same spirit in which it was proud of Banker White's new stone house and Wesley Moyer's bay stallion, Tony Tip, that had won the two-fifteen trot at the fall races in Cleveland.
Winesberg, Ohio by Anderson, Sherwood View in context
Here the followers of John Wesley have set up a temple, built before the period of Methodist conversion to the principles of architectural religion.
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