\Herrn"hut*er\ (h[~e]rn"h[u^]*[~e]r; G.
h[e^]rn"h[=oo]*[~e]r), n. (Eccl. Hist.)
One of the Moravians; -- so called from the settlement of
Herrnhut (the Lord's watch) made, about 1722, by the
Moravians at the invitation of Nicholas Lewis, count of
Zinzendorf, upon his estate in the circle of Bautzen.