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- noun Alternative form of
Wycliffite .
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In that country the Wyclifite tenets found a multitude of adepts; the Latin works of the thinker were transcribed by Czech students, and carried back to their own land; several writings of Wyclif exist only in Czech copies.
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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The Wyclifite heresy became for a while a real danger to the peace of the country, as Oldcastle's insurrection proved.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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The first volume besides introductory matter contains the story of early Christian persecutions, a sketch of medieval church history and an account of the Wyclifite movement in England and on the continent.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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The Wyclifite versions embrace the earlier and the later version of this name.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913
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King James's solicitude as to the spread of heresy in Scotland was not without cause; for early in his reign preachers of the Wyclifite errors had come from England, prominent among them being John Resby, who was sentenced to death and suffered at Perth in 1407.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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Lollard opinions, Sir John Oldcastle, in 1413, Dr. Gairdner says: "It seems to have been a life-and-death struggle between established order and heresy"; and Bishop Stubbs, while doing too much honour by far to the fanatic creed of the Wyclifite leader, remarks: "Perhaps we shall most safely conclude from the tenor of history that his doctrinal creed was far sounder than the principles which guided either his moral or his political conduct."
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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The Wyclifite movement in England was less a doctrinal heterodoxy than
German Culture Past and Present Ernest Belfort Bax 1890
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It was not that the new Protestantism was as yet formidable, for, violent and daring as they were, the adherents of Luther were few in number, and drawn mostly from the poorer classes among whom Wyclifite heresy had lingered or from the class of scholars whose theological studies drew their sympathy to the movement over sea.
History of the English People Volume 4 (of 8) John Richard Green 1860
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London, was secretary to John of Northampton, the Wyclifite Lord
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Yet, as has been said, that very "Parson's Tale", in its extant form, goes far to prove that its author, even by sympathy, was no Wyclifite (A.W. Ward, "Chaucer",
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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