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Definition of John Wiclif
1. Noun. English theologian whose objections to Roman Catholic doctrine anticipated the Protestant Reformation (1328-1384).
Generic synonyms: Theologian, Theologiser, Theologist, Theologizer
Lexicographical Neighbors of John Wiclif
Literary usage of John Wiclif
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1889)
"John Wiclif; his Doctrine 'and Work. By Chr. Wordsworth, DD, late Bishop of Lincoln.
London, 1884. 4. John Wiclif: his Life, Times, ..."
2. English Literature from Widsith to the Death of Chaucer: A Source Book by Allen Rogers Benham (1916)
"An anonymous writer in the Harleian MSS. number 2261 thus describes Wiclif in
1377: Master John Wiclif, doctor of divinity in the University of Oxford, ..."
3. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1909)
"... 1885, and John Wiclif as Patriot and Reformer, London, 1884 (both
short 'Festschriften' for the Wycliffe Quincentenary) ..."
4. History of the Christian Church by John Fletcher Hurst (1900)
"John Wiclif and his English Precursors. 2 vote. Lond., 1878. ... Pennington,AR
John Wiclif: his Life, Times, and Teaching. Lond.,1884. 23. ..."
5. The Age of the Renascence: An Outline Sketch of the History of the Papacy by Paul Van Dyke (1897)
"... for reform into an attack on the organization of the Church and the theory of
the Papacy. John Wiclif, a doctor of Oxford, was acknowledged to be the ..."
6. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1912)
"John Wiclif and his English Precursors, 2 vols.. London. 1873. new ed., 1 vol., with
summary' of vol. ii. by SG Green. 1884, reissue 1904. ..."
7. The Methodist Review (1884)
"AT this season, five hundred years ago, John Wiclif was coming near his end.
He was sixty years old, prematurely worn and weary ..."
8. The Fourteenth Century by Frederick John Snell (1899)
"... OF SIENA—GERMAN MYSTICS—JEAN GERSON—John Wiclif. ALTHOUGH in the literature
of this period allegory is to be found apart from mysticism, mysticism apart ..."
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