Definitions for Beghard

Beghard Beg·hard

Spelling: [beg-erd, buh-gahrd]
IPA: /ˈbɛg ərd, bəˈgɑrd/

Beghard is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 201 anagrams from letters in Beghard (abdeghr).

Definitions for Beghard

noun

  1. a member of a former lay brotherhood, founded in Flanders in the 13th century, living after the manner of the Beguines.

Origin of Beghard

1650-60; Medieval Latin beghardus, equivalent to beg- (see Beguine) + -hardus -ard

Examples for Beghard

Not long after a similar martyrdom occurred at Constance, where a Beghard, named Burgin, had founded a sect of extreme austerity.

Walter, known as the Lollard, was a Hollander, and was the most active and successful of the Beghard missionaries.

The origin of the names Beguine and Beghard has been the subject of much controversy.

In popular use the words Lollard and Beghard were virtually convertible, and yet there is a difference between them.

A leading feature of the Beghard propaganda was the circulation among the laity of written tracts and devotional works.

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