Lollard


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Lol·lard

 (lŏl′ərd)
n.
A member of a sect of religious reformers in England who were followers of John Wycliffe in the 1300s and 1400s.
[Middle English, from Middle Dutch Lollaerd, mumbler, mutterer, heretic, from lollen, doze, to mumble.]
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Lollard

(ˈlɒləd)
n
(Historical Terms) English history a follower of John Wycliffe during the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries
[C14: from Middle Dutch; mutterer, from lollen to mumble (prayers)]
ˈLollardy, ˈLollardry, ˈLollardism n
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Lol•lard

(ˈlɒl ərd)

n.
an English or Scottish follower of the religious teachings of John Wycliffe.
[1375–1425; late Middle English < Middle Dutch lollaert mumbler (of prayers) =loll(en) to mumble (see lull) + -aert -ard]
Lol′lard•y, Lol′lard•ry, Lol′lard•ism, n.
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'The Vision Concerning Piers the Plowman.' Wiclif and the Lollard Bible, about 1380.
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But Churchmen were angry, and called his followers Lollards or idle babblers.
After Wyclif's death his followers were gradually crushed out, and the Lollards disappear from our history.
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You brought us word even now, it was decreed That Bruno and the cursed Emperor Were by the holy council both condemn'd For loathed Lollards and base schismatics: Then wherefore would you have me view that book?
What Lollards do attend our holiness, That we receive such great indignity?
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"Pardieu!" said the knight, "this David Micheldene must be one of those Lollards about whom Father Christopher of the priory had so much to say.
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"I have come across Moravians and Lollards in Bohemia and Hungary," said Genestas.
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The Coventry Martyrs were a disparate group of Lollard Christians executed for their beliefs in Coventry between 1512-1522 (seven men and two women) and in 1555 (three men).
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Her close association with the likes of Sir Lewis Clifford, a known Lollard knight who was 'notorious for his unorthodox religious devotion' (p.
Joan, the Fair Maid of Kent: A Fourteenth-Century Princess and Her World
War for him was merely a means to ends, namely: strengthening his rule at home; obtaining justice in regard to his title to the French throne and thereby lasting peace with England's ancient enemy; and, with peace achieved, uniting Christendom in order to protect it from internal (Lollard and Hussite heretics) and external (Ottoman and Mamluk) enemies.
Henry V: The Conscience of a King
The former hints at how much Lollard heterodoxy concerning signs has in common with more contemporary concerns about what constitutes the human as played out in countless zombie and vampire films.
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