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adj
Inclined or tending to remonstrate; expostulatory; urging reasons in opposition to something.
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noun
One who remonstrates, or issues (usually formal and written) protestations.
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
Topics: Christianity, Protestantism
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History
Borrowed from Dutch remonstrant, from Latin remōnstrāns.
