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Definition of Huguenot

1. Noun. A French Calvinist of the 16th or 17th centuries.

Definition of Huguenot

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

Definition of Huguenot

1. Noun. (historical) A member of the Protestant Reformed Church of France during the 16th and 17th century. ¹

2. Adjective. Of, like or relating to Huguenotism or Huguenots. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Huguenot

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"While the Court in order to disarm huguenot hostility was ordering its agents to desist from prosecutions, and proclaiming a general amnesty from which only ..."

2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1904)
"Action by the huguenot Mills against George F. Jempson & Co. ... an alleged partnership existing between the huguenot Mills, a corporation chartered under ..."

3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"Guise was shot by a huguenot (Feb., 1563); Montmorency and Condé had been made ... The government proceeded to put large garrisons in huguenot cities, ..."

4. Church History by Johann Heinrich Kurtz (1889)
"... a huguenot place of worship was surrounded by a Catholic mob and set on fire. Noue of those gathered together there survived, for those who escaped the ..."

5. Facing the Twentieth Century: Our Country: Its Power and Peril by James Marcus King (1899)
"The origin of the word " huguenot" is enveloped in some measure of obscurity, and various theories, some of them ingenious and plausible, have been advanced ..."

6. France Under the Regency: With a Review of the Administration of Louis XIV by James Breck Perkins (1901)
"Yet the massacre fulfilled the purpose of its instigators : it dealt to the huguenot party a blow from which they never entirely recovered. ..."

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