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Mary Baker Eddy

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[ed-ee]
–noun
1. Mary (Morse) Baker (Mrs. Glover; Mrs. Patterson), 1821–1910, U.S. founder of the Christian Science Church.
2. Also, Eddie. a male given name, form of Edgar or Edward.
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American religious leader who founded Christian Science (1879), the tenets of which she explained in Science and Health (1875). She also founded the Christian Science Monitor (1908), a daily newspaper.
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Eddy, Mary Baker

An American religious reformer of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; the founder of Christian Science. Her book Science and Health is the official statement of Christian Science principles.

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Word Origin & History

eddy 
1455, Scot. ydy, possibly from O.N. iða "whirlpool," and related to the frequent O.E. prefix ed- "again, backwards," cognate of L. re-.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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