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LOLLARDY — [Noun] The political and religious movement of the Lollards, followers of John Wycliffe, advocating for church reform and vernacular scripture in late medieval England. From the derogatory nickname Lollard, possibly derived from Middle Dutch lollaert ("mumbler of prayers"), related to lollen ("to mumble"). Unlike "Protestantism" (a sweeping continental upheaval), or "heresy" (a blunt accusation leveled at any dissent), Lollardy was a quiet but stubborn current: the scratch of quills translating Latin Bibles into English, the hushed gatherings in shadowed barns, the defiant refusal to venerate a saint’s relic when the living poor starved outside the abbey walls. It was a movement of whispers, not thunder—a heresy of the hearth, not the pulpit—and though it flickered out, it left embers for others to fan.