Look up: Huguenot

1. Huguenot
   [n] - a French Calvinist of the 16th or 17th centuries
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2. Huguenot
   French Protestant in the 16th century; the term referred mainly to Calvinists. Persecuted under Francis I and Henry II, the Huguenots survived both an attempt to exterminate them (the Massacre of noun [ French, properly a dim. of Hugues . The name is probably derived from the Christian name ( Huguenot ) of some person conspicuous as a reformer.] (Eccl. Hist.) A French Protestant of the period of the religious wars in France in the 16th century.
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3. Huguenot
   • (n.) A French Protestant of the period of the religious wars in France in the 16th century.
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4. Huguenot
   any of the Protestants in France in the 16th and 17th centuries, many of whom suffered severe persecution for their faith. The origin of the name is ... [39 related articles]
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5. Huguenot
   French protestants who were reluctantly tolerated after the Edict of Nantes in 1598 which gave them religious freedom until the Edict was revoked by Louis XIV in 1685.The revocation caused a flood of exiles to the British Isles, the Low countries, the Baltic States and Russia. Many goldmiths of Fren...
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6. Huguenot
   French Protestant in the 16th century; the term referred mainly to Calvinists. Persecuted under Francis I and Henry II, the Huguenots survived both an attempt to exterminate them (the Massacre of St Bartholomew on 24 August 1572) and the religious wars of the next 30 years. In 1598 Henry IV (himself formerly a Huguenot) granted them toleration ...
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7. Huguenot
   French Calvinist Protestants who fled to London following the suppression of Protestantism in France after the Edict of Nantes in 1685.
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8. Huguenot
   The `Huguenots` (; , ) were members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France (or French Calvinists) from the sixteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Since the seventeenth century, Huguenots have been commonly designated "French Protestants", the title being suggested by their German co-...
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