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Port-Royalist

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

One of the inhabitants in the Cistercian convent of Port-Royal-des-Champs, and later of Port-Royal Abbey, near Paris, France.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: historical

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  • Among the Port-Royalists when the abbey was the home of the Jansenists in the 17th century wetr Antoine Arnauld, Blaise Pascal, and other famous scholars.

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