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Seventh-Day
[sev-uhnth-dey]
adjective
designating certain Christian denominations that make Saturday their chief day of rest and religious observance.
Seventh-Day Adventists.
Example Sentences
The liberal Justice William Brennan began to chip away at that settled understanding in a 1963 case awarding unemployment benefits to a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church whose religious scruples prevented her from taking otherwise available work on Saturdays.
Sheriff Honea previously said investigators "have received some information that leads us to believe that the subject responsible for the shooting targeted this school because of its affiliation with the Seventh-Day Adventist Church".
He previously noted authorities believed the shooting was an isolated incident, but a state-wide alert was sent to other schools affiliated with the Seventh-Day Adventist Church out of an abundance of caution.
There are one million members of the church in North America, according to the North American Division of Seventh-Day Adventists.
The shooting took place at Feather River School of Seventh-Day Adventists, roughly 70 miles north of Sacramento, the Sheriff’s Office announced in a news alert shortly before 2 p.m.
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