Port-Royalistn.adj.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Port-Royal All who adhered to that Party, took the Name of Port Royalists.

1844 R. W. Emerson Ess. 2nd Ser. viii. 264 Why so impatient to baptize them Essenes, or Port-Royalists, or Shakers, or by any known and effete name?

1860 R. W. Emerson Power in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 58 The communities hitherto founded by Socialists,—the Jesuits, the Port-Royalists.., are only possible, by installing Judas as steward.

1888 A. J. C. Hare Days near Paris xvii. 332 The work of Jansenius had been condemned by the Pope, and the Port-Royalists were condemned by the Jesuits for not finding in that work the passages which the Pope said were to be found there.

1910 F. P. Graves Hist. Educ. (1914) ii. xvii. 236 The schools of the Christian Brothers trained their pupils in the rudiments, as well as in religion, and the Oratorians and the Port Royalists somewhat emphasized the vernacular studies, history, and philosophy.

1992 Isis 83 131/2 The Cartesian as well as Pascalian debt acknowledged by the Port-Royalists is similarly neglected.

1845 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Feb. 141/2 We scarcely know in literature a rarer instance than was exhibited by the Port Royalist brotherhood.

1897 A. Beardsley Let. 6 Dec. (1970) 403 I have just been reading a Port Royalist version of Saint Augustine in Confessions.

1945 E. Cailliet Pascal ix. 180 Against scholasticism, and in agreement with his Port-Royalist friends, he will state the principle of positive theology.

1989 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 61 31 These anticipatory or parallel emphases remind us that Rousseau himself self-confessedly lived through a ‘Jansenist’ phase in which he read through the Port-Royalist corpus.