huguenot|huguenots in English

noun

[Hu·gue·not || 'hjuːgənɒt]

member of the Reformed or Calvinistic communion of France (during the 16th and 17th centuries); French Protestant

Use "huguenot|huguenots" in a sentence

1. Huguenot churchyard near there.

2. Some Huguenots chose to worship secretly.

3. Huguenots who were found fleeing faced severe punishment.

4. The powerful anti - Huguenot Holy League was formed in 15

5. A number of European countries passed edicts encouraging the Huguenots to immigrate.

6. The Treaty of Bergerac (1577), between Henry III and the Huguenot princes

7. State funds from exorbitant taxes were used to influence the Huguenots to convert.

8. Louis XIV also revoked the Edict of Nantes, forcing thousands of Huguenots into exile.

9. As a teenager, Henry joined the Huguenot forces in the French Wars of Religion.

10. Since 1536, Geneva had been a Huguenot republic and the seat of Calvinism.

11. French Protestants—or Huguenots—and French Catholics had been warring for decades, Bloodying the country

12. A Huguenot political party was formed in 1573 to fight for religious and civil liberties.

13. Like a Huguenot imagining Rome, he built up a picture of frivolity, viciousness and corruption.

14. The fact that the Grimkes came of notable Southern Huguenot stock made their case especially poignant.

15. (In the polemics that followed, the term "Huguenot" for France's Protestants came into widespread usage.)

16. George Beldam was the eldest child of a family that was descended from seventeenth-century Huguenot refugees

17. Some Huguenots abjured their faith, thinking it would be possible to convert back later.

18. 1687 – The first Huguenots set sail from France to the Cape of Good Hope.

19. In 1621 he abandoned this enterprise to serve on the Huguenot side in the civil wars.

20. “The second war was precipitated by Huguenot fears of an international Catholic plot,” says The New Encyclopædia Britannica.

21. Ribault soon had to abandon the other two ships, the last reminders of a planned Huguenot empire.

22. On 12 May 1705, the Virginia General Assembly passed an act to naturalise the 148 Huguenots still resident at Manakintown.

23. Dragoons were heavily armed soldiers billeted in houses of Huguenots with a view to intimidating the occupants.

24. Calvinism was first introduced into Canada by French HUGUENOTS and it later flourished among Scottish, Irish, Dutch and New England settlers

25. In 1681 he instituted the policy of dragonnades, to intimidate Huguenot families to convert to Roman Catholicism or emigrate.