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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 Alexander F. Mitchell
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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 Alexander F. Mitchell
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The various Anglo-Saxon translations and the Wycliffite versions are largely detached from the main line of development.
Early Theories of Translation Flora Ross Amos
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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" Various
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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.
Early Theories of Translation Flora Ross Amos
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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.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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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
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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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 1840-1916 1913
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