Luther

[ loo-ther; German loot-uhr ]

noun

1. Mar·tin [mahr, -tn, mahr, -teen], 1483–1546, German theologian and author: leader, in Germany, of the Protestant Reformation.
2. a male given name: from Germanic words meaning “famous” and “army.”

Luther

/ ˈluːθə /

noun

1. LutherMartin14831546MGermanRELIGION: ProtestantRELIGION: theologian Martin. 1483–1546, German leader of the Protestant Reformation. As professor of biblical theology at Wittenberg University from 1511, he began preaching the crucial doctrine of justification by faith rather than by works, and in 1517 he nailed 95 theses to the church door at Wittenberg, attacking Tetzel's sale of indulgences. He was excommunicated and outlawed by the Diet of Worms (1521) as a result of his refusal to recant, but he was protected in Wartburg Castle by Frederick III of Saxony (1521–22). He translated the Bible into German (1521–34) and approved Melanchthon's Augsburg Confession (1530), defining the basic tenets of Lutheranism

Derived Forms

• ˈLutherism, noun

Example Sentences

Dolours asks, citing Gandhi and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., when her father mocks sit-ins and marches.

From Los Angeles Times

“Keke, literally, just don’t. Who do you think you are? Martin F— Luther King?”

From Los Angeles Times

He met Martin Luther King in 1955, and "from then on, my life was never the same", he said.

From BBC

From an early age, Harris was taught by her mother the importance of the civil rights movement and she attended the annual Martin Luther King Jr Freedom March in Washington in 2004.

From BBC

Martin Luther King Jr. said that, he said that every resistance movement knows that there's got to be a resistance in order to make change.

From Salon