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- adjective Of or pertaining to the
mediaeval Englishtheologian John Wycliffe (mid-1320s–1384), his ideas, or his English translation of theBible (Wyclif’s Bible). - noun historical A follower of John Wycliffe.
Etymologies
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How the heck did they get their hands on a Wycliffite bible?
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The levelling effect of these ideas, however, was unmistakably felt as in the doggerel of John Ball, the mad Wycliffite priest of Kent,
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Glasgow about 1422, in all probability the Scottish Wycliffite whose letter to his bishop has recently been unearthed in a Hussite MS. at
The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics
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But he was a stern opponent of heresy -- Lutheran as well as Wycliffite -- a subtle defender of Roman doctrine; and in dedicating to
The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics
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The various Anglo-Saxon translations and the Wycliffite versions are largely detached from the main line of development.
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He omits the Wycliffite and Protestant divines mentioned by
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
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The Prologue to the second recension of the Wycliffite version, commonly attributed to Purvey, emphasizes, under cover of the same apparent theory, the claims of the vernacular.
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During the Wycliffite troubles the order took the leadership of the Catholic party, the first opponent of Wyclif being the Provincial of the Carmelites, John Cunningham.
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Controversy was inaugurated by Guy de Perpignan, general from 1318-20, author of "Summa de hæresibus"; the subject was taken up anew at the time of the Wycliffite troubles and ultimately led to the important works of Thomas Netter de Walden, the "Doctrinale" and
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No doubt the "copes" of the friars, to which we find so many references in the Wycliffite literature and in the writings of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
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