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Wycliffe

noun
1.
English theologian whose objections to Roman Catholic doctrine anticipated the Protestant Reformation (1328-1384).  Synonyms: John Wickliffe, John Wiclif, John Wyclif, John Wycliffe, Wickliffe, Wiclif, Wyclif.





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"Wycliffe" Quotes from Famous Books



... are trying to teach them how to make use of the free library, to direct their choice of books. I must tell you that a favourite study of mine is Old English, and I'm sure it would be so good if our working classes could be brought to read Chaucer and Langland and Wycliffe and so on. One can't expect them to study foreign languages, but these old writers would serve them for a philological training, which has such an excellent effect on the mind. I know a family—shockingly poor living, four of them, in two rooms—who ...
— Our Friend the Charlatan • George Gissing
... that, before the days of Wycliffe, there was an English version of the Scriptures, "by good and godly people with devotion and soberness well and ...
— The Faith of Our Fathers • James Cardinal Gibbons


Words linked to "Wycliffe" :   theologizer, theologian, theologist, theologiser


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