remonstrant
adjective
remonstrating; expostulatory.
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Remonstrantnouna Dutch supporter of the Arminian Remonstrance of 1610
remonstrant
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[ri-mon-struhnt]
/ rɪˈmɒn strənt /
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a person who remonstrates.
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(initial capital letter) one of the Dutch Arminians whose doctrinal differences from strict Calvinists were set forth in 1610.
remonstrant
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/ rɪˈmɒnstrənt /
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Remonstrant
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/ rɪˈmɒnstrənt /
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Etymology
Origin of remonstrant
First recorded in 1610–20, remonstrant is from the Medieval Latin word remōnstrant- (stem of remōnstrāns, present participle of remōnstrāre ). See remonstrate, -ant
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“Dark—very quiet,” said Grey, in what sounded to me like a remonstrant tone; and directly after a loud clear voice rang out from the block-house at the left-hand corner near the gate.
From To The West by George Manville Fenn
“Good ten miles to the shore,” said the first mate in a low remonstrant tone of voice.
From Old Gold The Cruise of the "Jason" Brig by Stanley L. Wood
Mrs. Gigg, who had not quite closed the front door, opened it wide to his remonstrant voice.
From The Bandbox by Louis Joseph Vance
“Who said I was afraid?” snarled Richard, facing sharply round, and paying no heed to the remonstrant looks of cousin and mother.
From The Parson O' Dumford by George Manville Fenn
"You think, sir," insisted John, to the Englishman's calmly averted face, "that being in a free country—" he dashed off Shotwell's remonstrant hand.
From John March, Southerner by George W. Cable
The Van Ruijvens’ home in the 1660s and ’70s, a canalside house named the Golden Eagle, abutted a clandestine Remonstrant church and doubled as a Collegiant meetinghouse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
He was appointed preacher at the Remonstrant church in Rotterdam and afterwards rector of the Remonstrant college in Amsterdam.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
In 1680 another, Remonstrant, version was published in the same city.
From Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 by Bartlett Burleigh James
"Next to its outer walls there is a narrow passage which leads to the Remonstrant Chapel of St. Pieter."
From The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
After the Advocate's death, except for the persecution directed against the Remonstrant party, the course of public affairs went on smoothly.
From History of Holland by George Edmundson
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