Wiclif was born in 1324, four years before Chaucer.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference

Wiclif spent the last nineteen years of his life as rector.    From Wordnik.com.  [From John O'Groats to Land's End] Reference

Wiclif, himself the first important English precursor of the Reformation.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Literature] Reference

The vengeance which Wiclif escaped during his life was wreaked upon his bones.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference

The influence of Lancaster was equal to his station, and he extended his protection to Wiclif.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference

Wiclif and the men associated with him, however, were always reformers first and writers only to that end.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Literature] Reference

The insubordination of outraged reformers, like the Bohemian preachers and Wiclif, soon penetrated to the masses.    From Wordnik.com.  [e. The Papacy and Italy] Reference

An unknown follower of Wiclif wrote a poem called "Piers Plowman's Creed," which conveys religious truth in a formula of belief.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference

Wiclif insisted that his doctrine was a philosophical and theological theory, not a political concept, but extremists ignored this point.    From Wordnik.com.  [1347-55] Reference

The influence of Wiclif, Oxford, Cambridge, the court, and, above all, Chaucer fixed Midland English as the language of the English people.    From Wordnik.com.  [1347-55] Reference

He had continued the work in manuscript up to the beginning of the fifteenth century, so that Wiclif, Huss, and other important precursors of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference

Wiclif was born about 1320, a Yorkshireman of very vigorous intellect as well as will, but in all his nature and instincts a direct representative of the common people.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Literature] Reference

It did not appear, then, that the revolt of Wiclif in England and of Huss in Europe was about to be renewed: though they had in fact prepared the soil to receive the new seed.    From Wordnik.com.  [England under the Tudors] Reference

Hus defended the writings of Wiclif in public debates.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Hus A brief story of the life of a martyr] Reference

Some notice of Wiclif too I expected in some form or other.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Froude] Reference

Thus Wiclif employed ‘soothsaw’, where we now use proverb.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Past and Present] Reference

Wiclif hath translated the gospel out of Latin into English, which.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woman's Bible] Reference

Wiclif; with whom we have associated Junius 'Etymologicon Anglicanum.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390] Reference

England, and Jerome of Prag brought the writings of Wiclif from Oxford.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Hus A brief story of the life of a martyr] Reference

Wiclif, many of them in costly binding; two days later he excommunicated.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Hus A brief story of the life of a martyr] Reference

Wiclif for example forms such comparatives as ‘grievouser’, ‘gloriouser’.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Past and Present] Reference

On both sides there was evident change at hand, and Wiclif gave form to the new movement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old St. Paul's Cathedral] Reference

Wiclif, in the late fourteenth century, and Tindale, in the early sixteenth, were two such men.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Greatest English Classic] Reference

(Wiclif), ‘easiliest’ (Fuller), ‘plainliest’ (Dryden), would be all inadmissible at present.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Past and Present] Reference

He saw the dangers ahead and said in a sermon: "O Wiclif, Wiclif, you will trouble the heads of many!".    From Wordnik.com.  [John Hus A brief story of the life of a martyr] Reference

So it came that the teaching of Wiclif and the preaching of Hus fell upon the Bohemian soul as upon a prepared soil.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Hus A brief story of the life of a martyr] Reference

Wiclif himself at first, was not on bad terms with the friars; his enmity was confined to the last few years of his life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference

The name of the English reformer is spelled differently by different historians, -- as Wiclif, Wyclif, Wycliffe, Wyckliffe; but.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beacon Lights of History] Reference

Sufferings of Wicklif, by I. Lewis (Oxford, 1820); Life of Wiclif, by Charles Wehle Le Bas (1846); John de Wycliffe, a Monograph, by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beacon Lights of History] Reference

Wiclif, though his mood is not like theirs, one of stern, moral indignation, but rather the good-natured scorn of a man of the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brief History of English and American Literature] Reference

Wiclif, though his mood is not, like theirs, one of stern, moral indignation, but rather the good-natured scorn of a man of the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Chaucer to Tennyson] Reference

Archbishop to suppress all books of Wiclif and all preaching except at the usual places; this last was to silence Hus in Bethlehem Chapel.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Hus A brief story of the life of a martyr] Reference