Utraquist
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Origin of Utraquist
1830–40; < New Latin Utraquista, equivalent to Latin utrāque (ablative singular feminine of uterque each of two, equivalent to uter either + -que and) + New Latin -ista -ist
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By April 3 the citizens of Utraquist Prague had bound themselves by a solemn oath with the Taborites to defend themselves against him to the last, and were busy in preparations to sustain a siege.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Henry Charles Lea
The Utraquist nobility and towns formed a league in defence of national and religious liberties; they convoked a diet and raised an army.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 by Rossiter Johnson
As the invention of printing facilitated controversy, polemical zeal multiplied treatises to prove the iniquity of the Utraquist heresy, but the Utraquists were not to be converted.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Henry Charles Lea
They had settled on a Utraquist estate; they were under the protection of a Utraquist King; they attended services conducted by Utraquist priests.
From A History of the Moravian Church by Joseph Edmund Hutton
"You are right, niece," replied Schindel, with emotion: "Let him be ten times an Utraquist, yet he is a noble, strong-minded man, and with pleasure should I one day lay your hand in his."
From Specimens of German Romance Vol. I. The Patricians by Carl Franz van der Velde
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