Brewer's: Plymouth Brethren

A sect that protests against all sectarianism, and advocates the unity of the church; some even go so far as to advocate a community of goods. So called from Plymouth, where they sprang into existence in 1830.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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