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Definition of Tyndale

1. Noun. English translator and Protestant martyr; his translation of the Bible into English (which later formed the basis for the King James Version) aroused ecclesiastical opposition; he left England in 1524 and was burned at the stake in Antwerp as a heretic (1494-1536).

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Literary usage of Tyndale

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1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1899)
"During his residence in London tyndale first came under the influence of Luther's ... tyndale and Koy made their escape with the printed sheets to Worms, ..."

2. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and by John Burke (1838)
"The se< ond son, ROBERT DE tyndale, settled at ... "i whom the elder, SIR THOMAS tyndale, Ы(Ъ<. •• Hockwold, m. first, Ann», us of Sir William ..."

3. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"The bishop was already overburdened, however, with dependents, and though tyndale carried a translation of an oration of Isocrates in his hand ns evidence ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The bishop was already overburdened, however, with dependente, and though tyndale carried a translation of an oration of Isocrates in his hand as evidence ..."

5. History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century by Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné (1879)
"tyndale-Sodbury Hall-Sir John and Lady Walsh-Table-Talk-The Holy Scriptures—The Images—The Anchor of Faith—A Roman Camp —Preaching of Faith and ..."

6. Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History Critical and by Robert Chambers, David Patrick (1901)
"After a shipwreck and a stay at Hamburg, tyndale made his way to Antwerp, where the folly of Bishop Tunstall in trying to suppress his New ..."

7. Collections by Massachusetts Historical Society (1871)
"LETTERS OF DEANE tyndale * DEANE tyndale TO JOHN WINTHROP. MOST KINDE BROTHER, — I haue nothing att this time to returne you for all your ..."

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