Cranmer, Thomas


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Pronunciation: / ˈkranmə /

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  1. (1489-1556) an English priest who was ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, and who was one of the leaders of the REFORMATION (= the time when many Christians in Europe left the Catholic religion and started the Protestant religion) in England. When the Catholic Mary I became Queen of England, she ordered Cranmer to be killed by being burned.
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Pronunciation: ˈɔːθəʊɛpɪst
Parts of Speech: noun
especially one of the 17th or 18th century scholars who proposed to reform English spelling so it would reflect pronunciation more closely a practitioner of orthoepy