Lexicographical Neighbors of Amosites
Literary usage of Amosites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages by Henry Charles Lea (1888)
"... refused to accept the compromise, and founded the sect known as amosites, or
the Little Party, which maintained a separate existence for forty-six years ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"The controversies ended in 1494 with the victory of the " great " party, the "
small " party, who called themselves amosites after their leader Amos, ..."
3. History of the Christian Church by Wilhelm Ernst Möller (1893)
"A small rigorist party (amosites) held itself apart in the district of Prachin,
but fell into decay on account of internal dissensions. ..."
4. The Story of Bohemia from the Earliest Times to the Fall of National by Charles Edmund Maurice (1896)
"... and founded a new sect which was called, after its founder, the amosites.
At the same time the old society became generally known as the Bunzlau ..."
5. An Encyclopaedia of Religions by Maurice Arthur Canney (1921)
"amosites. A small sect, an off-shoot of the Bohemian Brethren, followers of a
farmer named Amos. In 1508 they sent word to the King and informed against the ..."
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