Usage: often capitalized M&R&A
: a movement developing out of the Oxford Group movement and applying its doctrine and techniques especially to the problems of international relations
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a worldwide movement initiated by Frank Buchman in 1938 as a successor to the Oxford Group, and maintaining that the practice of high morality in public and private life is the key to world betterment. Abbr.: MRA
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Moral Re-Armament,
a religious movement of the 1900's advocating a personal form of Christianity based on ethical and moral precepts; Buchmanism.
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a Christian movement begun in 1938 by the US ↑evangelist Frank Buchman (1878–1961). He developed it from his Oxford Group established during a visit to Britain in 1921. The movement, which was especially active in the 1950s and 1960s, aimed to encourage high moral standards of behaviour, based on God’s will as interpreted by Buchman. It was strongly opposed to Communism and ↑homosexuality.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.