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McPherson   /məkfˈərsən/   Listen
McPherson

noun
1.
United States evangelist (born in Canada) noted for her extravagant religious services (1890-1944).  Synonym: Aimee Semple McPherson.






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"McPherson" Quotes from Famous Books



... the United States found support both among the humanitarians, who saw in it a step towards general emancipation, and among the slave-holders who viewed the increase of the free Negroes with apprehension. To promote this solution of the problem, the Colonization Society [Footnote: McPherson, Liberia; McMaster, United States, IV., 556 et seq.] was incorporated in 1816, and it found support, not only from antislavery agitators like Lundy, who edited the "Genius of Universal Emancipation" at Baltimore, ...
— Rise of the New West, 1819-1829 - Volume 14 in the series American Nation: A History • Frederick Jackson Turner



Words linked to "McPherson" :   evangelist, gospeller, revivalist, Aimee Semple McPherson, gospeler



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