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Definition of Luther
1. Noun. German theologian who led the Reformation; believed that salvation is granted on the basis of faith rather than deeds (1483-1546).
Definition of Luther
1. Proper noun. Martin Luther, German monk and theologian whose teaching inspired the Reformation ¹
2. Proper noun. (Chiefly American English) (surnames male given name), transferred use of the German surname of Martin Luther, Germanic ''liut'' "people" + ''heri,hari'' "army", derived from the given name that appears as Lothar in modern German. ¹
3. Proper noun. (sense rare) (surname from=Middle English dot=) from Middle English ''luthier'' "lute player". ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
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Literary usage of Luther
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"He did not meet Luther while at Wittenberg, although he shortly afterward entered
into a. Reform- correspondence with him. Though er: Works. ..."
2. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"As for Luther himself he daily expected a Bull from Rome excommunicating him as
a heretic. But the political condition of affairs in Germany was too ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"In English: BEARD, Martin Luther (London, 1889), is decidedly the best.
Unfortunately it remains an uncompleted fragment, and only reaches 1522; LINDSAY, ..."
4. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1916)
"Frederick Luther who died May 13, 1822, in the 92nd Here lyeth Experience y Wife
of Joshua Luther who dyed Decem. ye year of his age. Joanna Luther his wife ..."
5. The Reformation by George Park Fisher (1906)
"Luther AND ERASMUS ' Church had so made its creed ; and yet, in his inmost heart,
1 apart from the feeling that he must be anchored somewhere, be authority ..."
6. History of the Christian Church by John Fletcher Hurst (1900)
"AFTER the Leipzig disputation Eck gave himself no rest until Luther had been ...
Besides him there was Jerome Emser, whose Humanistic lectures Luther had ..."
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