Oneida Community

noun

1. a society of religious perfectionists established by John Humphrey Noyes, in 1848 at Oneida, N.Y., on the theory that sin can be eliminated through social reform: dissolved and reorganized in 1881 as a joint-stock company.

Example Sentences

Another of these social experiments was the Oneida Community and its several ephemeral branches.

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John Noyes, of the Oneida Community, where equal rights were observed, preached the same doctrines.

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It is not probable that the Oneida Community presented in detail the model to which human society generally will conform.

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He preached his new faith and finally established the Oneida Community for its demonstration, with about three hundred members.

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For twenty years past he has been a faithful disciple and patron of the Oneida Community.

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