contraremonstrant

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contraremonstrant (plural contraremonstrants)

One who remonstrates in opposition or answer to a remonstrant.
- 1656, John Hales, Doctor Davenant touching the Second Article discussed at the conference at the Hague of the Extent of Redemption:
  They did the synod wrong to make this distinction of contraremonstrants and remonstrants.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “contraremonstrant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)