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Lollards

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Lollards (etym. uncertain, poss. from Lat. ‘tares’, sc. growing amidst the good wheat, or ‘one who mumbles’). Name (originally one of abuse) given to the followers of Wycliffe, who took issue with the Church on a number of grounds, but especially the power of the papacy, transubstantiation, and the privileges of the priesthood. Later the term was applied to those more generally dissatisfied with the Church. They co-operated in the distribution of Tyndale's New Testament, and were broadly in sympathy with the changes associated with the Henrician reformation. Their distinctive protest did not survive, but merged into the wider spectrum of Protestant views.

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Lollards

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Lollards, from Dutch lollaerd, ‘mumbler’, applied to a heretical sect devoted to piety, implying pretentions to great virtue; it was borrowed in late 14th-cent. English to apply with the same connotations to the Wyclifites. See Wyclif and Oldcastle.

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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Lollards." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-Lollards.html

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