Meaning of Amishperson | Babel Free

Definitions

A member of the Amish.

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Examples

“Sure, a few buggies pull⟳ off the road and let⟳ drivers pass⟳, but most show⟳ no courtesy and keep⟳ crawling on their merry little way. The Amish should stay⟳ home, get⟳ a ride⟳ from someone who drives, or learn⟳ to drive⟳ themselves. Come⟳ on all you Amishpeople out there, give⟳ the rest⟳ of us a break⟳!”

“While her writer’s awareness seems almost always conscious, her reader’s knowledge most often seems to operate⟳ implicitly, allowing Anna, as a good Amishperson, to posit meaning in the text.[…]I knew from the courses I had taken, the reading I had done, and the conversations I had had with faculty ethnographers, that one of my ethnographic tasks would be to discover⟳ what an individual had to know⟳ to be a good successful Amishperson, to lead⟳ a good Amish life and get⟳ along successfully in Amish society.”

“I wonder⟳ if you got permission from the young Amishman who was pictured in his hospital bed in your newspaper Wednesday morning, or from the woman who was sitting by his bed.[…]It surprises me you would not be more sensitive to Amishpersons’ wishes for privacy and non-photography.”

“Being the only Amishperson in the room made her feel⟳ like⟳ a pea out of its pod, yet she was determined to see⟳ Kate.”

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