English Explanatory Dictionary

remonstrant

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. One who remonstrates, or issues (usually formal and written) protestations.
adj
  1. Inclined or tending to remonstrate; expostulatory; urging reasons in opposition to something.
noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

remonstrant remonstrants more remonstrant most remonstrant

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch remonstrant, from Latin remōnstrāns.

Derived words

remonstrantly unremonstrant Antiremonstrant anti-Remonstrant Remonstrantism
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