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Luther
[ loo-ther; German loot-uhr ]
noun
- Ѳ·پ [mahr, -tn, mahr, -teen], 1483–1546, German theologian and author: leader, in Germany, of the Protestant Reformation.
- a male given name: from Germanic words meaning “famous” and “army.”
Luther
/ ˈːθə /
noun
- LutherMartin14831546MGermanRELIGION: ProtestantRELIGION: theologian Martin. 1483–1546, German leader of the Protestant Reformation. As professor of biblical theology at Wittenberg University from 1511, he began preaching the crucial doctrine of justification by faith rather than by works, and in 1517 he nailed 95 theses to the church door at Wittenberg, attacking Tetzel's sale of indulgences. He was excommunicated and outlawed by the Diet of Worms (1521) as a result of his refusal to recant, but he was protected in Wartburg Castle by Frederick III of Saxony (1521–22). He translated the Bible into German (1521–34) and approved Melanchthon's Augsburg Confession (1530), defining the basic tenets of Lutheranism
Derived Forms
- ˈܳٳ, noun
Example Sentences
He also mandated records be released about the assassinations of Kennedy’s brother, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
If Martin Luther King Jr. hadn’t been assassinated, might he have succeeded at marrying his anti-war and economic inequality work with the civil rights advocacy for which he remains famous?
It’s impossible to not feel this love — this sense of community — when you walk through the Plant Chica’s Degnan Avenue gate humming the soulful tunes — Luther Vandross is playing now — of the vendors outside.
Harris-Dawson said ICE agents were spotted in an area bounded by Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard on the north, Florence Avenue on the south, Avalon Boulevard on the east and Vermont Avenue on the west.
However, Idris Elba, 52, the star of The Wire and Luther, said in 2023 that the racist backlash to the prospect of him being Bond "made the whole thing disgusting and off-putting".
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