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Definition of John knox

1. Noun. Scottish theologian who founded Presbyterianism in Scotland and wrote a history of the Reformation in Scotland (1514-1572).

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Literary usage of John knox

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Quarterly Review by George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1906)
"The Works of john knox. Collected and edited by David Laing. Six vols. ... john knox: the Hero of the Scottish Reformation. By Henry Cowan. ..."

2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1901)
"john knox 1505-1572 Born, at Haddington, 1505. ... 1558; "The Appellation of John Knox . . . from the cruell Sentence pronounced by the Bishops and Clergy," ..."

3. The Contemporary Review (1892)
"john knox; IN A SERIES OF HISTORICAL SONNETS. A FTER Wallace and Bruce and their brave compeers, Scotland -_O_ owes her character for manly self-reliance ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Descendants of his youngest daughter still exist. LAINO, Works of john knox. with introductory and chronological notes (6 vols., Edinburgh. ..."

5. History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth by James Anthony Froude (1867)
"john knox, who since his dismissal from France, A bishopric had held a commission as a preacher in Dur- john knox; ham and Northumberland, was looked upon ..."

6. Princeton Theological Review by Princeton Theological Seminary (1904)
"Price, Is. THE LIFE OF john knox. With Biographical Notes of the Principal Reformers and Sketches ... john knox. By the late RW BARBOUR, MA Reprinted from ..."

7. English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature by Henry Morley, William Hall Griffin (1892)
"john knox printed his "First Book of Discipline, to a Convention of the Three Estates," at the beginning of the year 1561, and delivered his soul against ..."

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