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–noun

a member of the Reformed or Calvinistic communion of France in the 16th and 17th centuries; a French Protestant.

[Origin: 1555–65; < F, perh. b. Hugues (name of a political leader in Geneva) and eidgenot, back formation from eidgenots, Swiss var. of G Eidgenoss confederate, lit., oath comrade

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—Related forms

Hu·gue·not·ic, adjective

Hu·gue·not·ism, noun

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n. A French Protestant of the 16th and 17th centuries.

[French, from Old French huguenot, member of a Swiss political movement, alteration (influenced by Bezanson Hugues (c. 1491-1532?), Swiss political leader) of dialectal eyguenot, from German dialectal Eidgenosse, confederate, from Middle High German eitgenōz : eit, oath (from Old High German eid) + genōz, companion (from Old High German ginōz).]

Hu'gue·not'ic adj., Hu'gue·not'ism n.

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Huguenot

1562, from M.Fr., according to Fr. sources originally political, not religious. The name was applied in 1520s to Genevan partisans opposed to the Duke of Savoy (who joined Geneva to the Swiss Confederation), and it is probably an alteration of Swiss Ger. Eidgenoss "confederate," from M.H.G. eitgenoze, from eit "oath" + genoze "comrade" (related to O.E. geneat "comrade, companion"). The form of the Fr. word probably alt. by assoc. with Hugues Besançon, leader of the Genevan partisans. In Fr., applied generally to Fr. Protestants because Geneva was a Calvinist center.

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huguenot
noun
a French Calvinist of the 16th or 17th centuries

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Huguenot

Hu"gue*not\, n. [F., properly a dim. of Hugues. The name is probably derived from the Christian name (Huguenot) of some person conspicuous as a reformer.] (Eccl. Hist.) A French Protestant of the period of the religious wars in France in the 16th century.

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