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What does Hussitism mean?

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Proper noun
  1. (religion) A religious reform and nationalistic movement of the Bohemian Reformation, based on the teachings of Jan Hus.
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The Czech Brethren, who settled down in Great Poland after 1548, had their origins in moderate Hussitism, and their confession tended toward Calvinism.
Without doubt the chiliast enthusiasm which swept the radical sectors of Hussitism had strong appeal.
The memory of the Huss movement had not completely died out in Poland, and the similarity of Luther's teachings with Hussitism made them popular.
But certainly after years of warlike and spiritual struggling with powers of the counterreformation, Hussitism weakened inside and out.
It may be argued that Hussitism failed to spread due to the death of its leading exponent.
However, the Czech flame flickered silently until it came to the surface in the pre-Reformation movement known as Hussitism in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

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