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Tetzel

American  
[tet-suhl] / ˈtɛt səl /
Or Tezel

noun

  1. Johann 1465?–1519, German monk: antagonist of Martin Luther.


Tetzel British  
/ ˈtɛtsəl /

noun

  1. Johann (joˈhan). ?1465–1519, German Dominican monk. His preaching on papal indulgences provoked Luther's 95 theses at Wittenberg (1517)

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In 1517, Luther decided to take a public stand against the actions of a friar named Johann Tetzel.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

Tetzel was raising money to rebuild St. Peter’s Cathedral in Rome.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

Thus the scene shifts quickly to the Antarctic Ocean, where Alan Ladd is chasing whales and Joan Tetzel.

From Time Magazine Archive

Played with fire and ice by Kirk Douglas and Joan Tetzel, Cuckoo's Nest is implausible, if scarifying, viewed as realism.

From Time Magazine Archive

He zealously endeavoured to refute the report that the Elector had induced him to engage in the dispute with Tetzel.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. I. by Freytag, Gustav

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