Lollard
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of Lollard
1375–1425; late Middle English < Middle Dutch lollaert mumbler (of prayers), equivalent to loll ( en ) to mumble ( see lull) + -aert -ard
Example Sentences
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The very first, at Lollard Street in London’s Kennington, is still going strong.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 31, 2019
His underground Lollard followers kept alive the idea of a direct relationship between God and the individual Christian, through his word.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 19, 2011
She was a Lollard, by birth no less than by marriage; but in her creed she was an ascetic of the sternest and most unbending type.
From The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time by Holt, Emily Sarah
It is on an hypothesis of the kind which we have outlined that it is possible to interpret the legislation against Lollard teachers which was enacted in the fifteenth century.
From Education in England in the Middle Ages Thesis Approved for the Degree of Doctor of Science in the University of London by Parry, Albert William
Ten years after Chaucer, again, the Lollard Thorpe was tried before Archbishop Arundel, and painted pilgrimages exactly as Chaucer’s Poor Parson would have described them.
From Chaucer and His England by Coulton, G. G.
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