Definition of Huguenot in English:
Huguenot
noun ˈhjuːɡənəʊˈhjuːɡənɒtˈhjuɡəˌnɑt
A French Protestant of the 16th and 17th centuries. Largely Calvinist, the Huguenots suffered severe persecution at the hands of the Catholic majority, and many thousands emigrated from France.
Example sentencesExamples
- In the end there were over two million members of the Huguenot churches in France.
- To start with Louis embarked on a policy to bring the Huguenots back to the Catholic Church.
- During Richelieu's campaign against the Huguenots, France had to borrow boats to transport their troops and supplies.
- During the 1750s French Huguenots suffered the last great wave of state-sponsored persecution, and Jansenists within the Gallican Church fared little better.
- The Huguenots were French Protestants who had been persecuted for their faith.
- They welcomed Jews and Huguenots in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
- Early beneficiaries were the French Huguenots who came there after Louis XIV's outlawing of Protestantism in 1685.
- By 1561 there were 2000 Calvinist churches in France and the Huguenots had become a political faction that seemed to threaten the state.
- The first Huguenot ministers arrived in France in 1553.
- Althusius was strongly influenced by French Huguenots and Calvinism.
Origin
French, alteration (by association with the name of a Geneva burgomaster, Besançon Hugues) of eiguenot, from Dutch eedgenot, from Swiss German Eidgenoss 'confederate', from Eid 'oath' + Genoss 'associate'.
Definition of Huguenot in US English:
Huguenot
nounˈhyo͞oɡəˌnätˈhjuɡəˌnɑt
A French Protestant of the 16th–17th centuries. Largely Calvinist, the Huguenots suffered severe persecution at the hands of the Catholic majority, and many thousands emigrated from France.
Example sentencesExamples
- Althusius was strongly influenced by French Huguenots and Calvinism.
- The Huguenots were French Protestants who had been persecuted for their faith.
- During Richelieu's campaign against the Huguenots, France had to borrow boats to transport their troops and supplies.
- Early beneficiaries were the French Huguenots who came there after Louis XIV's outlawing of Protestantism in 1685.
- To start with Louis embarked on a policy to bring the Huguenots back to the Catholic Church.
- The first Huguenot ministers arrived in France in 1553.
- By 1561 there were 2000 Calvinist churches in France and the Huguenots had become a political faction that seemed to threaten the state.
- They welcomed Jews and Huguenots in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
- During the 1750s French Huguenots suffered the last great wave of state-sponsored persecution, and Jansenists within the Gallican Church fared little better.
- In the end there were over two million members of the Huguenot churches in France.
Origin
French, alteration (by association with the name of a Geneva burgomaster, Besançon Hugues) of eiguenot, from Dutch eedgenot, from Swiss German Eidgenoss ‘confederate’, from Eid ‘oath’ + Genoss ‘associate’.