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Huguenot
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Hu·gue·not  (hyg-nt)
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 eitgenz : eit, oath (from Old High German eid) + genz, companion (from Old High German ginz).]

Hugue·notic adj.
Hugue·notism n.

Huguenot [ˈhjuːgəˌnəʊ -ˌnɒt]
n
(Historical Terms) a French Calvinist, esp of the 16th or 17th centuries
adj
(Christianity / Protestantism) designating the French Protestant Church
[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]
Huguenotic  adj
Huguenotism  n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.Huguenot - a French Calvinist of the 16th or 17th centuriesHuguenot - a French Calvinist of the 16th or 17th centuries
Calvinist, Genevan - an adherent of the theological doctrines of John Calvin
Translations
Huguenot [ˈhjuːgənəʊ]
A. ADJhugonote
B. Nhugonote/a m/f
Huguenot
adjhugenottisch
nHugenotte m, → Hugenottin f


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But, first, reflect on how poorer this country would be without successive generations of immigrants - the successive waves of Jewish settlers from the 11th century to the 20th, the weavers from the Low Countries 500 years ago, the Hugenots, the Chinese, the Italians, the Poles who in the Second World War helped the fight against Hitler's vile Nazism.
These ten essays describe the facets of that power and career and include commentary on the roles of rhetoric and identity in his early career, his varied relations with Milton and Marvell, his bombastic newspaper, his relations with the Hugenots and continental Protestantism, his use of fable, his life in music, and his knowledge of the trustworthiness of seventeenth-century information.
Later on, Hugenots and Irish immigrants came in search of work.
 
 
 
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