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Definition of Remonstrants
1. remonstrant [n] - See also: remonstrant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Remonstrants
Literary usage of Remonstrants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1905)
"These Articles expressed the dissent of the remonstrants (by which name the
Arminians were henceforth known) from the cardinal tenets of the orthodox ..."
2. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"These Articles expressed the dissent of the remonstrants (by which name the
Arminians were henceforth known) from the cardinal tenets of the orthodox ..."
3. Short History of the Christian Church by John Fletcher Hurst (1892)
"Maurice of Nassau thought he saw that by identifying himself with the
Contra-remonstrants he could gain su- Rival Parties , preme power. ..."
4. An Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain: Chiefly of England, from the by Jeremy Collier (1840)
"And here the remonstrants seemed to press the Calvinists, and come off with
advantage. But what ground the Contra-remonstrants lost in the contest, ..."
5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"The remonstrants had chosen sixteen clergymen and the Leyden professor Simon ...
The remonstrants then submitted successively written statements in defense ..."
6. The Life of John Locke by Henry Richard Fox Bourne (1876)
"a That Locke should till now have been ignorant of the doctrines of the remonstrants
is hardly credible, seeing that several of his own friends had for some ..."
7. Memoirs of Simon Episcopius: : ... who was Condemned by the Synod of Dort as by Frederick Calder (1838)
"This arose from a design to exclude them from this assembly, unless they ranged
themselves with the cited remonstrants. The reason assigned by the president ..."
8. The Methodist Review (1844)
"Therefore, in the month of February, of the year 1613, there assembled at that
place on the side of the Contra-remonstrants, John Bogardus, ..."