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(1703-64), North American colonial Presbyterian clergyman, born in County Armagh, Ireland; one of the leaders of the Great Awakening of religious feeling in colonial America, along with Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield; a revivalist preacher known for fiery exhortations to sinners to repent; scornful of conservative critics; his ’Nottingham Sermon’ (1740) led to church schism, which he later in life worked to heal.