coverdale in English

noun

family name; Miles (Myles) Coverdale (1488-1568), English cleric and translator who translated and produced the first complete English translation of the Bible in 1535

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1. Coverdale is something of a professional cynic.

2. Coverdale revised Tyndale’s translation, working from Latin and German versions.

3. So he again appealed to Coverdale to revise the complete manuscript.

4. During this time, Coverdale learned much from Tyndale about the art of Bible translating.

5. Coverdale translates thus: He hath made me as it were a Byworde of the comon people

6. Coverdale translates thus: He hath made me as it were a Byworde of the comon people

7. Coverdale worked on generating team spirit and inter-dependence - including manoeuvres on Salisbury Plain that involved treasure hunts and making rope ladders.

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9. ‘The entire Corpus of Modern English prose has grown up since, and been influenced by, the works of Tyndale and Coverdale, and during the formative period of the early translations there was little other widely available reading matter.’

10. ‘The entire Corpus of Modern English prose has grown up since, and been influenced by, the works of Tyndale and Coverdale, and during the formative period of the early translations there was little other widely available reading matter.’

11. Though highly conventional markers of femininity Bestrew the novel--Zenobia's hothouse flower, associating her with Beatrice, Rappacini's ill-fated daughter (41), Priscilla's purse (intriguingly, Coverdale reveals that he, too, possesses one) (33)--especially sharp spikes line the markers of manhood.

12. Messiah (HWV 56) is an English-language oratorio composed in 1741 by George Frideric Handel, with a scriptural text compiled by Charles Jennens from the King James Bible, and from the Coverdale Psalter, the version of the Psalms included with the Book of Common Prayer.