Erasmus
7 lettersnounrareUpdated June 2026
Definition
Desiderius Erasmus, the fifteenth and sixteenth-century Dutch humanist scholar and theologian who was the foremost Renaissance intellectual of northern Europe.
“Erasmus wrote The Praise of Folly as a satirical critique of Church corruption.”
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e·ras·mus
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