Huguenot Definition

hyo͝ogə-nŏt
noun
Any French Protestant of the 16th or 17th cent.
Webster's New World
adjective

Of, like or relating to Huguenotism or Huguenots.

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Noun

Singular:
Huguenot
Plural:
huguenots

Origin of Huguenot

  • From French huguenot (“Huguenot; also, a personal name and surname”), diminutive of Hugo, Hugon, Hugues, from Middle High German Hūg, Hūc (“Hugh, a man's name”), from Middle High German huge (“mind”), from Old High German hugu (“mind, thought”), from Proto-Germanic *huguz, *hugiz (“mind”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Old English hyge (“thought, mind, heart, disposition, intention, courage, pride”).

    From Wiktionary

  • French from Old French huguenot member of a Swiss political movement alteration (influenced by Bezanson Hugues (c. 1491–1532?), Swiss political leader) of dialectal eyguenot from German dialectal Eidgenosse confederate from Middle High German eitgenōz eit oath (from Old High German eid) genōz companion (from Old High German ginōz)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Huguenot Sentence Examples

  • The boy's mother was of Huguenot descent.

  • Under the protection of the edict the Huguenot Church of France flourished.

  • Then Louis, in company with his brothers William and Henry, made his way across the French frontier to the camp of the Huguenot leader, Admiral Coligny.

  • The individuals among the American Quakers who laboured most earnestly and indefatigably on behalf of the Africans were John Woolman (1720-1773) and Anthony Benezet (1713-1784), the latter a son of a French Huguenot driven from France by the revocation of the edict of Nantes.

  • The first emigrant Boers to enter the country were led by Pieter Retief (c. 1780-1838), a man of Huguenot descent and of marked ability, who had formerly lived on the eastern frontier of Cape Colony and had suffered severely in the Kaffir wars.

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