pre-Reformation
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Today, the reputed remains of that fire shrine, a broken Celtic cross and a 105-foot stone round tower, built in the age of pillaging Vikings, are the most visible remains of the pre-Reformation settlement.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2022
It has impressive tombs, and one of only two pre-Reformation baptismal fonts, where the painter William Hogarth was christened in 1697.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 10, 2019
Another feature of that pre-Reformation period, the authors note, was that the Catholic church generally felt powerful enough to deal with pockets of opposition by isolating and neutralising its ideological opponents.
From Economist ● Jan. 21, 2018
They walked along slippery flagstones that had been worn smooth over centuries of use, and stepped on the flat tombstones of departed pre-Reformation monks.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 12, 2016
Such, then, was the ponderous metal that passed current as the swearing of pre-Reformation England.
From A Cursory History of Swearing by Sharman, Julian
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