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Latimer definition

latəmər
(person) 1485?-1555; Eng. Protestant bishop & religious reformer: burned at the stake.
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2008, Neil Cartlidge, Boundaries in medieval romance (page 81)

It is likely that Anglo-Norman formed a necessary element of Morris Regan's linguistic repertoire as a latimer [...]

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Noun

Singular:
latimer
Plural:
latimers

Origin of latimer

  • Old French latinier, latimier, properly "one knowing Latin".

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Latimer Sentence Examples

  • Latimer and Hooper maintained that Bishops and presbyters were identical; and Pilkington, bishop of Durham, and Bishop Jewel were of the same mind.

  • On the 19th of June, on the resignation of Lord Clifford, he was appointed lord treasurer and made Baron Osborne of Kiveton and Viscount Latimer in the peerage of England, while on the 27th of June 1674 he was created earl of Danby, when he surrendered his Scottish peerage of Osborne to his second son Peregrine Osborne.

  • On the 14th of September 1553 he was sent to the Tower, where Ridley and Latimer were also confined.

  • Ridley and Latimer were unflinching, and suffered bravely at the stake on the 16th of October 1555.

  • Latimer wrote to him in that year urging him not to fall short of the expectations which had been formed of his ability.

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