remonstrant
adjective
remonstrating; expostulatory.
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Remonstrant
Remonstrantnouna Dutch supporter of the Arminian Remonstrance of 1610
remonstrant
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[ri-mon-struhnt]
/ rɪˈmɒn strənt /
adjective
noun
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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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adjective
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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The speech was bold and firm, perhaps somewhat ironically remonstrant, like that of Elijah to the priests of Baal, demanding the cessation of these trivial delays.
From Romola by George Eliot
Wherein, your remonstrant would inquire, is the justice, equality, or wisdom of this?
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
In 1800 the remonstrant was horrified at the study of geography.
From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV by Ida Husted Harper
Chip, the dog, who was watching, uttered a remonstrant bark, but the boys paid no heed, being too intent upon the plan that now occurred to one, and was flashed instantaneously to the other.
From Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp by George Manville Fenn
By ones and twos we collected them, half drowned yet shrilly remonstrant, and dropped them into the dry shed where they belonged.
From More Jonathan Papers by Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris
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
The "Remonstrant" to whom Milton replied was Bishop Hall.
From Life of John Milton by Richard Garnett
A law was accordingly established dividing Scotland into five districts, in each of which certain members of the Remonstrant clergy were empowered to ordain ministers, as it were, to the exercise of their functions.
From Claverhouse by Mowbray Morris
In 1617 the outbreak of the religious dispute between the Remonstrant Maurice Prince of Orange and John of Oldenbarneveldt.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various
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