Wickliffe

[ wik-lif ]

noun
  1. John. Also Wiclif. Wycliffe, John.

  2. a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.

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How to use Wickliffe in a sentence

  • When Wickliffe recovered, he set about a most important work, the translation of the bible into English.

  • About the end of the year, Wickliffe was seized with a violent disorder, which it was feared might prove fatal.

  • Webster, on the Judiciary Committee, killed Wickliffe's resolution with hardly a wave of his hand.

  • If they had, there would have been no Wickliffe, no Husse, no Luther in history.

    Andrew Marvell | Augustine Birrell
  • But let us first see what the crimes of Wickliffe were, for which he had been so severely punished by the holy Roman church.

British Dictionary definitions for Wickliffe

Wickliffe

Wiclif

/ (ˈwɪklɪf) /


noun
  1. variant spellings of (John) Wycliffe

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