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diet of worms
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Other imperial diets took place at Worms in the years 829, 926, 1076, 1122, 1495 , and 1545, but unless plainly qualified, the term "Diet of Worms" usually refers to the assembly of 1521.
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Diet \Di"et\, n. [F. di[`e]te, LL. dieta, diaeta, an assembly, a day's journey; the same word as diet course of living, but with the sense changed by L. dies day: cf. G. tag day, and Reichstag .] A legislative or administrative assembly in Germany, ...
Usage examples of diet of worms.
She had been born into the Lutheran Church, not my church but ancestor to my church, ancestor to Al Protestant churches, the first fruit of the Diet of Worms.
At the Diet of Worms (1521), Duke George of Saxony, an outspoken opponent of Luther, was as emphatic in his protest against this practice as Luther himself (WREDE, op.