Hutchinson

[ huhch-in-suhn ]

noun
  1. Anne Mar·bur·y [mahr-buh-ree], /ˈmɑr bə ri/, 1591–1643, American religious liberal, born in England: banished from Massachusetts 1637.

  2. Thomas, 1711–80, American colonial administrator: royal governor of Massachusetts 1769–74; in exile from England after 1774.

  1. a city in central Kansas, on the Arkansas River.

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How to use Hutchinson in a sentence

  • The fullest religious liberty was allowed, and even when Anne Hutchinson visited Williams, he treated her like a sister.

    The Greater Republic | Charles Morris
  • Those who had believed in Anne Hutchinson's "covenant of grace" found the Quaker idea of the "inner fight" an acceptable doctrine.

    The Colonization of North America | Herbert Eugene Bolton
  • The fate of Anne Hutchinson makes a fit ending to this sad tale of oppression and of wrong.

  • The slaughter of Anne Hutchinson and her family was exultingly declared to be the judgment of God for defaming the elders.

  • Probably, too, she was of the same enthusiastic spirit as Anne Hutchinson, that rejoiced in martyrdom.

    Women of America | John Rouse Larus