Lollard
noun
an English or Scottish follower of the religious teachings of John Wycliffe from the 14th to the 16th centuries.
Lollardry
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a word derived from
Lollard.
Example Sentences
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Founded to combat Lollardry in 1427, it unwittingly fostered a far greater popular schism in the Church by conferring, in 1726, a fellowship upon a young deacon named John Wesley.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lollardry as a social danger was held firmly at bay, and in 1387 the king ordered Lollard books to be seized and brought before the Council.
From History of the English People, Volume II The Charter, 1216-1307; The Parliament, 1307-1400 by John Richard Green
Wycliffe's labour had left only the Bible as the seed of a future life, and no trace remained in the sixteenth century of the Lollardry of the fourteenth.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
Out of the floating mass of opinion which bore the name of Lollardry one faith gradually evolved itself, a faith in the sole authority of the Bible as a source of religious truth.
From History of the English People, Volume II The Charter, 1216-1307; The Parliament, 1307-1400 by John Richard Green
This religious movement gradually died out, and by the middle of the fifteenth century nothing more is heard of Lollardry.
From An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England by Edward Potts Cheyney
