anti-Witness

English

Etymology

From anti- +‎ Witness.

Adjective

anti-Witness (comparative more anti-Witness, superlative most anti-Witness)

1. Opposed or hostile to Jehovah's Witnesses or their beliefs or doctrines.
   • 1963, Charles Herman Pritchett, Alan F. Westin, The Third Branch of Government: 8 Cases in Constitutional Politics:

     The most spectacular manifestation of anti-Witness hostility was a sharp outbreak of violence. In June, 1940, several hundred incidents occurred in which force was directed against Jehovah's Witnesses […]

   • 2014, Steve McRoberts, Falling in Truth: The Education of a Jehovah's Witness, page 329:

     But it wasn't till he was at Bethel that he began reading them in connection with all the old magazines they had there, and even a few of the anti-Witness books that managed to find their way into little obscure boxes and corners in the library.

Noun

anti-Witness (plural anti-Witnesses)

1. A person who is opposed or hostile to Jehovah's Witnesses or their beliefs or doctrines.

See also

• non-Witness