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- noun historical One of the
dwellers in theCistercian convent of Port-Royal-des-Champs, nearParis ,France , when it was the home of theJansenists in the 17th century, among them being Arnauld, Pascal, and other famous scholars.
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Examples
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Pascal to be taken up by him on behalf of his beleaguered and endangered friend Arnauld, the Port-Royalist.
Classic French Course in English William Cleaver Wilkinson
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As to the French translations, that of the homilies on the epistles to the Romans, Ephesians, &c., by Nicholas Fontaine, the Port-Royalist, in
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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The old headings under which the Port-Royalist editors grouped the "Thoughts" recall the titles of
Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays Walter Pater 1866
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Accordingly, before the final disposition of the property was made, La Mère Angélique took care that Pascal should understand the matter anew from the Port-Royalist point of view.
Pascal John Tulloch 1854
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