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Huss

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Huss  (hs, hs), John
See Jan Hus.
huss [hʌs]
n
(Cookery) the flesh of the European dogfish, when used as food
[C15 husk, huske, C16 huss: of obscure origin]
Huss [hʌs]
n
(Biographies / Huss, John (?1372-1415) M, Bohemian, RELIGION: religious reformer) John, Czech name Jan Hus. ?1372-1415, Bohemian religious reformer. Influenced by Wycliffe, he anticipated the Reformation in denouncing doctrines and abuses of the Church. His death at the stake precipitated the Hussite wars in Bohemia and Moravia
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Noun1.HussHuss - Czechoslovakian religious reformer who anticipated the Reformation; he questioned the infallibility of the Catholic Church was excommunicated (1409) for attacking the corruption of the clergy; he was burned at the stake (1372-1415)
Hus, Jan Hus, John Huss


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A spiritual descendant in the direct line from Wycliff, Huss, Luther, Calvin; an Evangelical of the Evangelicals, a Conversionist, a man of Apostolic simplicity in life and thought, he had in his raw youth made up his mind once for all in the deeper questions of existence, and admitted no further reasoning on them thenceforward.
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