Thomas More
/ˈtɒməs ˈmɔːr/ · Tom·as More
proper noun
- Sir Thomas More (1478–1535), English lawyer, statesman, and author of the political satire *Utopia*; executed for refusing to acknowledge King Henry VIII’s supremacy over the Church of England. Thomas More’s steadfast conscience made him a martyr for Catholicism in England.
Did you know? Thomas More invented the word “utopia” by combining the Greek ou (‘no’) and topos (‘place’), creating a term that now denotes any imagined perfect society.