| Word | Lollard |
|---|---|
| Definition | n. A follower of John Wycliffe, one of the important influences on the Protestant Reformation and the first to translate the Bible into (Middle) English in the 14th century. Transformatively, any heretic. |
| Sentence | This may have been the most crucial arena of the class struggle, and it can be traced all the way back to the Lollards. The reaction against Lollardry was so intense because a vernacular Bible threatened to break a clerical monopoly on knowledge... |
| Source | The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, Kindle loc. 522 |
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