John XXII

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noun

Jacques Duèse, c1244–1334, French ecclesiastic: pope 1316–34.

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How to use John XXII in a sentence

A few years back, designer John Galliano was fined by the government for sharing just such anti-semitic sentiments in public.
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NEW ORLEANS — John Boehner was reelected House Speaker yesterday by his Republican colleagues despite some dissenting members.
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And similar shards of enthusiasm-killing kryptonite are lodged in John Kasich, Mike Pence and Ted Cruz.
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As it currently stands, the Via Dolorosa follows the account given in the Gospel of John.
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By contrast, John McCain, the eventual GOP nominee, had raised approximately $12.7 million in the first quarter of 2007 alone.
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After all, may not even John Burns be human; may not Mr. Chamberlain himself have a heart that can feel for another?
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Hamo in alluding to the early cultivation of tobacco by the colony, says, that John Rolfe was the pioneer tobacco planter.
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John Wilson, a celebrated landscape and marine painter, died at Folkstone, aged 81.
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John Thornton Kirkland, president of Harvard university, died, aged 70.
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John was baptizing at a large pool called Ænon-by-Saleim,—probably allegorical, meaning “Fountain of Repose.”
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British Dictionary definitions for John XXII

John XXII

noun

original name Jacques Duèse. ?1244–1334, pope (1316–34), residing at Avignon; involved in a long conflict with the Holy Roman Emperor Louis IV and opposed the Franciscan Spirituals

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