contraremonstrant

From contra- +‎ remonstrant.

contraremonstrant (plural contraremonstrants)

1. Someone who remonstrates against a remonstrant.
   • 1656, John Hales, Doctor Davenant touching the Second Article discussed at the conference at the Hague of the Extent of Redemption:

     They did the synod wrong to make this distinction of contraremonstrants and remonstrants.

• “contraremonstrant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• contra-remonstrant (superseded)
• contra-Remonstrant (dated, superseded)

From contra- +‎ remonstrant, after contraremonstrantie.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔn.traː.reː.mɔnˌstrɑnt/

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• Hyphenation: con‧tra‧re‧mon‧strant

contraremonstrant m (plural contraremonstranten, no diminutive)

1. (historical) a Contraremonstrant, a Gomarist; an opponent of the Remonstrants around the time of the synod of Dordt [from 1611]

   Synonym: gomarist

• contraremonstrants

• contraremonstrantie