contraremonstrant
English
editEtymology
editFrom contra- + remonstrant.
Noun
editcontraremonstrant (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)
Dutch
editAlternative forms
edit- contra-remonstrant (superseded)
- contra-Remonstrant (dated, superseded)
Etymology
editFrom contra- + remonstrant, after contraremonstrantie.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcontraremonstrant m (plural contraremonstranten)
- (historical) a Contraremonstrant, a Gomarist; an opponent of the Remonstrants around the time of the synod of Dordt [from 1611]
- Synonym: gomarist
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