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
Of the practice of abortion I find no record in English pre-Reformation documents, though Henry VIII’s disreputable commissioner, Dr Layton, accused the Yorkshire nuns of taking potations “ad prolem conceptum opprimendum.”
From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Power, Eileen
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