Crossword-Solution: LOLLARD
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Lollard | n. | One of a sect of early reformers in Germany. |
| Lollard | n. | One of the followers of Wyclif in England. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “LOLLARD”
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| 14th century heretic. | 1 answer |
| ENGLISH heretic (14th c) | 1 answer |
| Follower of John Wycliffe. | 1 answer |
| Wycliffe follower | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree;
supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this
application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir
J. Davies.
Hint 2 anagram
INDVIE
Hint 3 another clue
"Delicious!"
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Sentences with LOLLARD (5)
Roundhead, Roundhead, and Lollard, intended to apply to the Master of the Rolls, the authorities of the convent had decided, after having vindicated themselves in the Queen's Bench, to give up the child, which would be, for twenty-four hours, at the order and disposal of the Association, and afterwards of his parents.
Lollard's bower, good authorities say, Is again fitting up for a prison; And a wood-merchant told me to-day 'Tis a wonder how faggots have risen.
There is a third element in the literature of this time which you may call Lollard poetry, the great example of which is William Langland’s “Piers Plowman.” It is no bad corrective to Chaucer, and in _form_ at least belongs wholly to the popular side; but it seems to me to show symptoms of the spirit of the rising middle class, and casts before it the shadow of the new master that was coming forward for the workman’s oppression.
There are various reasons why men oppose established institutions in the season of their decay; but a fourteenth century satirist of the monks, or even of the clergy at large, was not necessarily a Lollard, any more than a nineteenth century objector to doctors' drugs is necessarily a homoeopathist.
Hence, when Master Harry Bailly's tremendous oaths produce the gentlest of protests from the "Parson," the jovial "Host" incontinently "smells a Lollard in the wind," and predicts (with a further flow of expletives) that there is a sermon to follow.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1962–2003).