Coverdale

[kuhv-er-deyl]

noun

Miles,1488–1569, English divine: translator of the Bible into English 1535.

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Wedderburn and Wishart seem also to have been acquainted with Coverdale's Bible of 1535.
The Scottish Reformation
Alexander F. Mitchell
Coverdale, Ridley, Scory, and Ponet had been already disposed of.
The Reign of Mary Tudor
W. Llewelyn Williams.
It is also the reading of the old English version by Coverdale.
Notes and Queries, Number 135, May 29, 1852
Various
Luther and the Vulgate have omitted it, and therefore so has Coverdale.
Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 118, January 31, 1852
Various
Coverdale appears only to have translated from the Dutch and Latin into English.
The Bible: what it is
Charles Bradlaugh

British Dictionary definitions for coverdale

Coverdale

noun

Miles. 1488–1568, the first translator of the complete Bible into English (1535)

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