Guillelmite
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Synonym of Williamite (“member of the Hermits of Saint William”).
"Three Companies of Citizens attend the Saint’s triumphal Car. The Children of St. Francis, with the Croſs, in the Habits of religious Warfare, and covered with their Cowls, march at the Head of the Proceſſion; then come the Guilelmites, the Singers, the Canons and Canoneſſes of St. Gertrude: […]"
- 2 Synonym of Guglielmite.
"Alarmed by these doings, the tribunal of the Inquisition pronounced anathema against the heresy of the Guillelmites and condemned them to the penalties of death, excommunication and the confiscation of their property."
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More examples"Three Companies of Citizens attend the Saint’s triumphal Car. The Children of St. Francis, with the Croſs, in the Habits of religious Warfare, and covered with their Cowls, march at the Head of the Proceſſion; then come the Guilelmites, the Singers, the Canons and Canoneſſes of St. Gertrude: […]"
Etymology
From French guillelmite. By surface analysis, Latin Guillelmus + -ite.
From Latin Guillelmita. By surface analysis, Latin Guillelma + -ite.
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