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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For two more years he waited in despair, and then he was brought to the White Tower again, and visited by two Utraquist Priests, Mystopol and Martin.
From A History of the Moravian Church by Hutton, Joseph Edmund
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 Lea, Henry Charles
"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 Velde, Carl Franz van der
The eloquence of the pulpit acquired a high degree of cultivation; and besides the two Utraquist preachers mentioned above, many other names were celebrated among them.
From Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations by Robinson, Therese Albertine Louise von Jacob
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 Johnson, Rossiter
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