huguenot

Speech parts

1. huguenot - Noun

2. huguenot - Adjective

Meaning

A French Protestant of the period of the religious wars in France in the 16th century.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

calvinist french protestant french calvinist protestant reformation wasp reformed huguenotism religious freedom religious tolerance religious dissenter religious exile protestant reformer french reformed church religious refugee
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Hypernyms

calvinist genevan

Examples

Among James Monroe's ancestors were French Huguenot immigrants, who came to Virginia in 1700. Source: Internet

Andre’s son John married Hester (or Esther) Grasset, also a Huguenot refugee. Source: Internet

As many of the planters on Martinique were themselves Huguenot, and who were sharing in the suffering under the harsh strictures of the Revocation, they began plotting to emigrate from Martinique with many of their recently arrived brethren. Source: Internet

Catherine now rallied both Huguenot and Catholic forces to retake Le Havre from the English. Source: Internet

Doran 1996 pp. 66–67; Skidmore 2010 pp. 129, 128; Porter 2007 p. 412 From 1561 he advocated and supported the Huguenot cause, Doran 1996 pp. 59, 67 and the French ambassador described him as "totally of the Calvinist religion" in 1568. Source: Internet

At the age of fifty-nine, she embarked on an eighteen-month journey around the south of France to meet Huguenot leaders face to face. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Huguely Hugueninia Hugueninia tanacetifolia Huguenotic huguenotism Huguley