[Ads-l] Antedating of "Presbyterian"

[Shapiro, Fred]

The OED has a 1521 citation for "Lutheran" as a noun.

Fred Shapiro


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Only marginally relevant, but interesting to me was the occurrence of
the word "Lutheran" in Shakespeare's play Henry VIII, written in 1630.
However, the OED has a cite from 100 years earlier, 1530, in a letter by
Thomas Cromwell. It seems to have originally meant any kind of Protestant.

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presbyterian (OED 1606)

1577 in Early English Books Online

Fred Shapiro

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