TABORITE


Meaning of TABORITE in English

ˈtābəˌrīt noun

( -s )

Usage: usually capitalized

Etymology: Tábor, town south of Prague in the former kingdom of Bohemia (now a province of western Czechoslovakia) founded in 1420 as a Taborite stronghold by Jan Ziska died 1424 Bohemian Hussite leader + English -ite

: a member of the radical wing of the Hussites rejecting everything without direct biblical warrant except war (as waged fiercely under Ziska)

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