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- proper noun The
religion of theHuguenots .
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Examples
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Many ladies and lords belonging to Court strove to convert me to Huguenotism.
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And what are Catholicity and Huguenotism but political factions, with a different set of prayers?
The Grey Cloak Harold MacGrath 1901
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But the crafty Bearnese had made use of the intimacy only to read the secrets of the Balafre's heart; and on Navarre's flight from the court, and his return to Huguenotism, Guise knew that he had been played upon by
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) John Lothrop Motley 1845
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But the crafty Bearnese had made use of the intimacy only to read the secrets of the Balafre's heart; and on Navarre's flight from the court, and his return to Huguenotism, Guise knew that he had been played upon by
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-86) John Lothrop Motley 1845
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But the crafty Bearnese had made use of the intimacy only to read the secrets of the Balafre's heart; and on Navarre's flight from the court, and his return to Huguenotism, Guise knew that he had been played upon by
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1584 John Lothrop Motley 1845
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But the crafty Bearnese had made use of the intimacy only to read the secrets of the Balafre's heart; and on Navarre's flight from the court, and his return to Huguenotism, Guise knew that he had been played upon by
PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845
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Many ladies and lords belonging to Court strove to convert me to Huguenotism.
Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois — Volume 1 [Court memoir series] Queen Marguerite 1584
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Many ladies and lords belonging to Court strove to convert me to Huguenotism.
Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois — Complete [Court memoir series] Queen Marguerite 1584
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Philip II of Spain was a Roman Catholic fanatic; Charles IX of France was a weak mind, of no definite religious conviction, but used by the Catholics to bring about the massacre of seventy thousand Huguenots; Henry IV of France was probably a Huguenot in genuine feeling, but a political trimmer, a daring and brilliant soldier, a frenzied devotee of women, religion giving him small concern, and his change from Huguenotism to Catholicism a circumstance as trifling as the exchange of his hunter's paraphernalia for court apparel; Queen Elizabeth was as nearly devoid of religious instincts as is possible for a woman, though her purposes and position in politics drove her to the Protestant cause; William of Orange was born a
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