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Coverdale

American

[kuhv-er-deyl] / ˈkʌv ərˌdeɪl /

noun

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

Coverdale British

/ ˈkʌvəˌdeɪl /

noun

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

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“It’s time for me to call it a day,” Coverdale said in his Thursday video.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2025

In 2023, Coverdale told Metal Edge that “things went squirrely” between him and Sykes and that “no matter how incredible of an album that we made together, we were unable to connect as people.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2025

Coverdale also shared other tributes to Marsden on social media.

From BBC • Aug. 26, 2023

Ruth Ann Coverdale was born on Jan. 17, 1935, in Milford, Del., the youngest of five children, and was raised in nearby Slaughter Neck.

From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2021

When Coverdale had finished his translation of the Bible, he carried the manuscript over to France and entrusted it to François Regnault.

From The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century by Bastide, Charles

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