# Guillelmite
## English
### Etymology 1

From French guillelmite. By surface analysis, Latin Guillelmus +‎ -ite.

#### Noun

Guillelmite (plural Guillelmites)
* Synonym of Williamite (“member of the Hermits of Saint William”).
** 1733, [John Lockman], transl., “A Continuation of the Same Subject; Their Processions, Nine-Day Devotions; Their Retirements and Foundations”, in The Ceremonies and Religious Customs of the Various Nations of the Known World: […], volume I ([…]), London: […] William Jackson, for Claude Du Bosc, […], →OCLC, part II (A Dissertation on the Christian Religion, According to the Principles of Roman Catholics), page 435:Three Companies of Citizens attend the Saint’s triumphal Car. The Children of St. Francis, with the Croſs, in the Habits of religious Warfare, and covered with their Cowls, march at the Head of the Proceſſion; then come the Guilelmites, the Singers, the Canons and Canoneſſes of St. Gertrude: […]
** 1889, George F[rederic] Warner, “Introduction”, in The Buke of John Maundeuill: Being the Travels of Sir John Mandeville, Knight, 1322–1356: A Hitherto Unpublished English Version […], Westminster: […] [F]or the Roxburghe Club [by] Nichols and Sons, […], →OCLC, page xxxi:The notice of Sir John Mandeville given by Bishop Bale in his Catalogue of British Writers, first published in 1548, is chiefly based on his own account of himself, but it ends with the matter-of-fact statement that he died at Liége on 17 Nov. 1372, and was buried there in the church of the Guillelmites, or Guillemins.
** 1957, H. Daniel-Rops [pseudonym; Henri Jules Charles Petiot], translated by John Warrington, “The New Leaven”, in Cathedral and Crusade: Studies of the Medieval Church, 1050–1350, London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd; New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc., →OCLC, chapter IV (The Leaven in the Lump), page 162:The Rule of St Augustine had been adopted not only by the canons regular, but also by small eremitical communities such as the Guillelmites, founded before 1157 by St William of Maleval; […]
** 2001, Revue belge de musicologie, Brussels: Société belge de musicologie, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10:Monastic orders such as the Guillelmites had special chants for their patron, Guillelmus de Malavalle.

### Etymology 2

From Latin Guillelmita. By surface analysis, Latin Guillelma +‎ -ite.

#### Noun

Guillelmite (plural Guillelmites)
* Synonym of Guglielmite.
** 1928 October, M. Lahy-Hollebecque, translated by Margaret E. Cousins, “A Woman Messiah in the Middle Ages”, in Annie Besant, editor, The Theosophist: A Magazine of Brotherhood, Oriental Philosophy, Art, Literature and Occultism, volume L, part I, number 1, Adyar, Madras: Theosophical Publishing House, published 1929, →OCLC, page 93:Alarmed by these doings, the tribunal of the Inquisition pronounced anathema against the heresy of the Guillelmites and condemned them to the penalties of death, excommunication and the confiscation of their property.
** 2001, Shulamith Shahar, translated by Yael Lotan, “Women in the Early Days of the Poor of Lyons”, in Women in a Medieval Heretical Sect: Agnes and Huguette the Waldensians, Woodbridge, Suffolk; Rochester, N.Y.: The Boydell Press, →ISBN, page 29:The introduction of a female element into the deity, and a belief in an imminent new divine revelation, formed the core of the Guillelmites’ faith.
** 2023, Raoul Vaneigem, translated by Bill Brown, “The Guillelmites”, in Resistance to Christianity: A Chronological Encyclopaedia of Heresy from the Beginning to the Eighteenth Century, London; New York, N.Y.: ERIS, →ISBN, chapter 33 (The Millenarians), page 447:Among the Guillelmites who were arrested, four or five were condemned as recidivists.

### References

* ↑ “Guillelmite, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.