Huguenotn.adj.
/ˈhjuːɡənəʊ/, /ˈhjuːɡənɒt/, U.S. /ˈhjuɡəˌnɑt/ A. n.
A member of the Calvinistic or Reformed communion of France in the 16th and 17th centuries; a French Protestant.In French, originally a nickname, said to have been imported from Geneva; in English, chiefly a historical term.
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Genevian1564
Huguenot1565
Calvinist1579
Calvinian1582
Genevizer1682
Genevan1843
1565 T. Stapleton Fortresse of Faith f. 72 Except a number of rebellious hugenots.
a1593 C. Marlowe Massacre at Paris (c1600) sig. B5v There are a hundred Hugonets and more, Which in the woods doe holde their synagogue.
1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 89 For in Paris they..call any Prince Hugonet, who dares onely say, That Nostre Dame is but a darke melancholike Church.
1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. (1761) I. 496 The French King had lately obtained..advantages over the Hugonots.
1845 M. Pattison in Christian Remembrancer Jan. 73 The Huguenots had pillaged the shrine; the Revolution swept it away altogether.
1846 J. C. Hare Mission of Comforter II. 558 Some..took part in the massacre of the Hugonots.
1867 S. Smiles Huguenots Eng. & Ireland i. 23 The confederates were called Eignots, and hence, probably, the derivation of the word Huguenots.
B. adj. (or attributive).
Of or belonging to the Huguenots.
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Geneva1559
Genevian1565
Calvinian1566
Calvinistical1606
Calvinish1637
Huguenot1682
Calvinistic1820
Calvinized1824
Genevan1853
Huguenotic1897
1682 News from France 10 The King is resolved to make his Hugonot Subjects grow weary either of their lives, or of their Religion.
1683 Locke in Ld. King Life (1830) II. 202 A man may be saved in the Presbyterian, Independent, or Hugonot Church.
1873 S. Smiles Huguenots in France (1881) Pref. 5 A Huguenot engineer directed the operations at the siege of Namur.
1896 Prospectus 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.
Derivatives
Huguenotic adj. /-ˈɒtɪk/ of or pertaining to the Huguenots.
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Geneva1559
Genevian1565
Calvinian1566
Calvinistical1606
Calvinish1637
Huguenot1682
Calvinistic1820
Calvinized1824
Genevan1853
Huguenotic1897
1897 Saga-bk. Viking Club Jan. 272 He questioned whether some of the brachycephalic skulls [in Denmark] were not Huguenotic.
ˈHuguenotism n. the religious system or doctrine of the Huguenots; Calvinism.
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Calvinism1570
Huguenotism1611
Genevanism1625
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Huguenotterie, Huguenotisme, Caluinisme.
1859 tr. Lamartine's Mary Stuart App. 150 Huguenotism was drowned in blood.
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