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Remonstrant

adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Inclined or tending to remonstrate; expostulatory; urging reasons in opposition to something.
Noun
  1. 1
    One who remonstrates, or issues (usually formal and written) protestations.
  2. 2
    A member of the Dutch Arminians whose divergence from Calvinism was expressed in five articles in the Remonstrance of 1610; subsequently a member of the liberal Protestant denomination that developed from this group. historical

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch remonstrant, from Latin remōnstrāns.

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