Beghard

American  

[beg-erd, buh-gahrd] / ˈbɛg ərd, bəˈgɑrd /

noun

1. a member of a former lay brotherhood, founded in Flanders in the 13th century, living after the manner of the Beguines.

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Beghard British  

/ bɪˈɡɑːd, ˈbɛɡəd /

noun

1. Also called: Beguin.  a member of a Christian brotherhood that was founded in Flanders in the 13th century and followed a life based on that of the Beguines

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Etymology

Origin of Beghard

1650–60; < Medieval Latin beghardus, equivalent to beg- ( Beguine ) + -hardus -ard

Example Sentences

A stranger, said to come from Flanders, whose name, “Pichardus,” shows evidently that he was a Beghard, disseminated the doctrine of the Brethren, and among other things that nakedness was essential to purity, which we have seen was one of the extravagances of the sect.

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In popular use the words Lollard and Beghard were virtually convertible, and yet there is a difference between them.

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Walter, known as the Lollard, was a Hollander, and was the most active and successful of the Beghard missionaries.

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From Angermünde Friar Jordan seems to have hastened to Erfurt, where he was present at the trial of a Beghard named Constantine, though the proceedings were carried on by the vicar of the Archbishop of Mainz.

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There is no proof even that he was concerned in the condemnation of the Beghard heresiarch Berthold von Rohrback, who in 1356 expiated his heresy in the flames.

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