Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A French Protestant of the 16th to 18th centuries.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A member of the Reformed or Calvinistic communion of France in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Eccl. Hist.) A French Protestant of the period of the religious wars in France in the 16th century.
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- noun historical A
member of theProtestant Reformed Church ofFrance during the 16th and 17thcentury . - adjective Of, like or relating to
Huguenotism or Huguenots.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a French Calvinist of the 16th or 17th centuries
Etymologies
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Examples
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Now every shepherd, every shepherd lass, At the word Huguenot shuddered with affright, Even 'midst their laughing courtship.
Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1891
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Protestants "-- tells us that, having at one time accepted the derivation from" eidgenossen "as the most plausible, he subsequently returned to that which connects the word Huguenot with Hugues or Hugh Capet.
The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) Henry Martyn Baird
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The article in this number of the Continental entitled The Huguenot
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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The eyes of the two met an instant, and those of Foucauld -- so the King called his Huguenot favourite -- betrayed some surprise; for Count Hannibal and he were not intimate.
Count Hannibal A Romance of the Court of France Stanley John Weyman 1891
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They would not let me see him, told me that his crime of harboring a Huguenot was a grave one, that he had violated the King's edict, and might be charged even with treason.
An Enemy to the King Robert Neilson Stephens 1886
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The Huguenot is the same now he was in the time of
Augusta County: L. Luckett to Alexander H. H. Stuart, September 2, 1861 L. Luckett 1861
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Huguenot when I was in high school and gave tours on what was called Huguenot Day.
Gadling 2008
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Montaigne’s reflections were prompted by meeting on the road a gentleman of “good appearance” who was “on the other side from us”—that is, a Huguenot—but who pretended to be a Catholic.
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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Montaigne’s reflections were prompted by meeting on the road a gentleman of “good appearance” who was “on the other side from us”—that is, a Huguenot—but who pretended to be a Catholic.
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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He recovered, but with no power in his hand: and from that time his comrades called him "Huguenot": he is still living now.
The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Various
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