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Huguenot, n. (a.)|ˈhjuːgənɒt, -nəʊ|
Also (6 huge-, 7 hague-, hugunot), 7–8 hugonet(t, 7–9 hugonot.
[a. F. Huguenot, a word of disputed origin; according to Hatz.-Darm. (who cites the form eiguenots from Chron. de Genève of 1550), a popular alteration of Ger. eidgenosz (Du. eedgenoot), confederate, under the influence of the personal name Hugues, Hugh.]
A member of the Calvinistic or Reformed communion of France in the 16th and 17th c.; a French Protestant. In French, orig. a nickname, said to have been imported from Geneva; in English, chiefly a historical term.
1565T. Stapleton Fortr. Faith 72 Except a number of rebellious hugenots. c1592Marlowe Massacre Paris Wks. (Rtldg.) 234/2 There are a hundred Huguenots and more Which in the woods do hold their synagogue. 1630R. Johnson's Kingd. & Commw. 89 For in Paris they..call any Prince Hugonet, who dares onely say, That Nostre Dame is but a darke melancholike Church. 1759Robertson Hist. Scot. (1761) I. 496 The French King had lately obtained..advantages over the Hugonots. 1845M. Pattison Ess. (1889) I. 12 The Huguenots had pillaged the shrine; the Revolution swept it away altogether. 1846Hare Mission Comf. (1850) 359 Some..took part in the massacre of the Hugonots. 1867Smiles Huguenots Eng. i. (1880) 21 Mahn..gives no fewer than fifteen supposed derivations of the word Huguenot.
B. adj. (or attrib.) Of or belonging to the Huguenots.
1682News fr. France 10 The King is resolved to make his Hugonot Subjects grow weary either of their lives, or of their Religion. 1683Locke in Ld. King Life (1830) II. 202 A man may be saved in the Presbyterian, Independent, or Hugonot Church. 1873Smiles Huguenots Fr. Pref. (1881) 5 A Huguenot engineer directed the operations at the siege of Namur. 1896Prospectus of Huguenot Society of London, Founded in 1885..Objects..2. To form a bond of fellowship among some of those who desire to perpetuate the memory of their Huguenot ancestors.
Hence Huguenotic |-ˈɒtɪk| a., of or pertaining to the Huguenots; ˈHuguenotism, the religious system or doctrine of the Huguenots; Calvinism.
1611Cotgr., Huguenotterie, Huguenotisme, Caluinisme. 1859tr. Lamartine's Mary Stuart App. 150 Huguenotism was drowned in blood. 1897Saga-Bk. Viking Club Jan. 272 He questioned whether some of the brachycephalic skulls [in Denmark] were not Huguenotic. |