NOUN
- English theologian whose objections to Roman Catholic doctrine anticipated the Protestant Reformation (1328-1384)
How To Use Wyclif In A Sentence
- Wycliffe lifted out a man's wrist watch and a little wad of letters still in their envelopes and bearing foreign stamps.
- Wycliffe had no idea but surely not enough to provide a motive for murder.
- In this essay, the Latin term dominium will be used to distinguish Wyclif's theologically medieval view from its modern English correlate John Wyclif's Political Philosophy
- Richard Lavenham, an English contemporary of Wyclif, perhaps put the prevailing optimism best (Spade 1975, p. 93; Heytesbury 1979, p. Just as the bond of love is sometimes called insoluble, not because it can in no way be untied (sit solubilis) but because it can be untied [only] with difficulty, so a proposition is sometimes called insoluble, not because it is not solvable but because it is solvable [only] with difficulty. Insolubles
- He said: Mary worked with Wycliffe in Togo since 1989 where she was part of a team translating the New Testament into a language called Ife. BBC News - Home
- The translation of the whole Bible into English for the common people began only with John Wycliffe.
- Wycliffe tried to concentrate on the Wheel and to ignore the veritable forest of giant rock pinnacles with which they were surrounded.
- She looked from Wycliffe to Lucy Lane and back again with apprehension that was close to panic.
- All which is summed up by Wyclif in his proposition: any "dominium" has grace for its foundation. A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance
- It is an old-fashioned project, and a quixotic one, but deeply moving in its hope that Wyclif's Bible and Burns's songs form an inheritance we would all want, if only we knew about it.