Wyclifite
- a variation of Wycliffite.
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The Wyclifite movement in England was less a doctrinal heterodoxy than a revolt against the Papacy and the priestly hierarchy.
From German Culture Past and Present by Bax, Ernest Belfort
—Poet, b. in London, was sec. to John of Northampton, the Wyclifite Lord Mayor of London, whom he betrayed to save himself, in which, however, he failed, being executed in 1388.
From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by Cousin, John W. (John William)
The impulse towards prose-writing may perhaps be dated from about 1380, the date of the first Wyclifite translation of the Bible.
From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various
