Hussite
noun
a member of the religious reformist and nationalistic movement initiated by John Huss in Bohemia in the late 14th century.
Hussitism
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a word derived from
Hussite.
Example Sentences
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His care for the common people was sincere and constant, but his beneficial efforts in this direction were thwarted by the Feudal system. curious interaction of two totally dissimilar social factors, feudalism and Hussitism.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" by Various
Hussitism, moreover, was spreading into the neighboring lands, especially to the south and east, requiring, as we shall see hereafter, the strenuous efforts of the Inquisition to eradicate it from Hungary and the Danubian provinces.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Henry Charles Lea
The relations between Bohemia and Hungary had long been close, and Hussitism had spread widely throughout the latter kingdom as well as in the Slavic territories to the south.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Henry Charles Lea
I have already alluded to the contributions made to the Hussites in 1432 by the Waldensian churches of Dauphiné, and to the virtual coalescence of Hussitism and Waldensianism throughout Germany.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Henry Charles Lea
Driven out of Hungary, in 1410, he was arrested and thrown in prison in Vienna, by the papal inquisitor and episcopal official, for teaching Hussitism and infecting with it the university of that city.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Henry Charles Lea
