Hussite
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- noun
- /ˈhʌsaɪt/
- Many Czechs today take pride in their Hussite heritage and the reforms they championed in the 15th century.
Examples
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They have survived the depredations of the Hussites, the Nazis, and the Communists.
Fiction book (2002) -
With the birth of nationalism as a popular movement in the mid-nineteenth century, Czechs came to view the Hussite period as their nation's brightest moment.
Academic text (1996) -
He was a member of the deputation on church reform and participated in the negotiations with the Hussites.
Academic text (2018) -
Had the host been removed early on in the shrine's history, perhaps taken into a kind of protective custody during the Hussite incursions, preserved, and then rehabilitated?
Academic text (2005) -
Together with the Hussites and the Turks, the "mythical Jew" posed an existential peril to the empire.
Academic text (2005) -
Earlier in this essay, I wrote that there was an alternative explanation for the disappearance of the Pulkau wonderhost after the Hussite incursions of about 1422-25.
Academic text (2005) -
Henlein escalated his rhetoric, denouncing the Prague regime as "Hussite-Bolshevik criminals," even as threats from the Third Reich assumed a more ominous tone.
Blog text (18) -
During the 15th century, the Hussites organized a movement that sought to reform the Catholic Church in Bohemia.
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John Huss, the founder of the Hussite movement, was executed for his beliefs in 1415.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Hussite = Hus (transparent) = Hus + ite
Formed from the proper name 'Hus' plus the productive suffix '-ite' meaning 'follower of', so the derivation is regular and directly interpretable if the base is known.
Etymology
Hussite comes from the name of the Czech reformer Huss plus the ending -ite, which means 'follower' or 'member'. So a Hussite is someone who followed John Huss and his ideas for church reform in Bohemia in the early 1400s.