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Huguenot

[ hyoo-guh-notor, often, yoo- ]

noun

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


Huguenot

/ -ˌnɒt; ˈhjuːɡəˌnəʊ /

noun

  1. a French Calvinist, esp of the 16th or 17th centuries


adjective

  1. designating the French Protestant Church

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Derived Forms

  • ˈHugueˌnotism, noun
  • ˌHugueˈnotic, adjective

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Other Words From

  • Hugue·notic adjective
  • Hugue·not·ism noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Huguenot1

1555–65; < French, perhaps blend of Hugues (name of a political leader in Geneva) and eidgenot, back formation from eidgenots, Swiss variant of German Eidgenoss confederate, literally, oath comrade

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Huguenot1

C16: from French, from Genevan dialect eyguenot one who opposed annexation by Savoy, ultimately from Swiss German Eidgenoss confederate; influenced by Hugues, surname of 16th-century Genevan burgomaster

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Example Sentences

The du Pont family descended from Huguenot nobility in Burgundy, emigrating to the United States in 1800.

"I would rather see him hanged and saved than living and a Huguenot," she answered, gloomily.

You do not know what is passing in the provinces, we have been obliged at Lyons to kill a Huguenot who preached revolt.

This orator was Gorenflot, recounting his journey to Lyons, and his duel in an inn with a dreadful Huguenot.

If indeed it were from religious motives, it might do him some good—but he has no more religion than a Huguenot.

But while he was away the Spaniards came by land to surprise the Huguenot settlement.

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