remonstrant
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remonstrant¹
noun remonstrants
- One who remonstrates, or issues (usually formal and written) protestations.
adjective more remonstrant · most remonstrant
- Inclined or tending to remonstrate; expostulatory; urging reasons in opposition to something.
Remonstrant²
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Dutch remonstrant, from Latin remōnstrāns.
noun Remonstrants
- 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.
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