Remonstrant

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Dutch remonstrant, from Latin remōnstrāns.

Noun

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Remonstrant (plural Remonstrants)

  1. (Protestantism, historical) A member of the Dutch Arminians whose divergence from Calvinism was expressed in five articles in the Remonstrance of 1610; subsequently a member of the liberal Protestant denomination that developed from this group.

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