Definition of John wycliffe

1. Noun. English theologian whose objections to Roman Catholic doctrine anticipated the Protestant Reformation (1328-1384).


Lexicographical Neighbors of John Wycliffe

John Vanbrugh
John Venn
John Wain
John Walker
John Wanamaker
John Wayne
John Webster
John Wesley
John Wickliffe
John Wiclif
John Wilkes
John Wilkes Booth
John William Strutt
John Witherspoon
John Wyclif
John Wycliffe
John dory
John le Carre
John o' Groats
John the Baptist
John the Divine
John the Evangelist
John von Neumann
Johnathan
Johncock
Johne's bacillus
Johne's disease
Johnnie
Johnno

Literary usage of John wycliffe

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

1. The Life and Opinions of John de Wycliffe: Illustrated Principally from His by Robert Vaughan (1831)
"... CHAPTER X. On the Writings of john wycliffe, DD THE writings of Wycliffe are many of them well CHAP. known from the notices which occur respecting x' ..."

2. Readings in the History of Education: A Collection of Sources and Readings by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (1920)
"Wycliffe's Followers attack the Pope and the Practice of Indulgences (Arnold, Thomas, Select English Works of john wycliffe, vol. u, pp. 457-58. ..."

3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1841)
"Allow me to state the result of my researches on this interesting question. On the 14th of May, 1361 , Master john wycliffe, ..."

4. English Prose: Selections by Henry Craik (1893)
"... john wycliffe 1324—1384 [john wycliffe, the year of whose birth is conjecturally fixed as 1324, ..."

5. An Introduction to the English Historians by Charles Austin Beard (1906)
"CHAPTER V john wycliffe AND THE CHURCH THOUGH there were many critics of the abuses in the Church during the Middle Ages, john wycliffe differed from them ..."

6. A Text-book of Church History by Johann Karl Ludwig Gieseler, Samuel Davidson, Henry Boynton Smith, John Winstanley Hull, Mary A. Robinson (1858)
"Three Treatises of john wycliffe, now first published from the MSS., by JH Todd, DD 12. Dublin, 1851 : viz., I. The Church and her Members: II. ..."

7. History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth by James Anthony Froude (1870)
"... found its exponent in john wycliffe, the great forerunner of the Refor- John mation, whose austere figure stands out above ..."

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