Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

remonstrant

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.27 in modern English

Syllables: re-mon-strant
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One who remonstrates, or issues (usually formal and written) protestations.

adj

Inclined or tending to remonstrate; expostulatory; urging reasons in opposition to something.

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.

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch remonstrant, from Latin remōnstrāns.

Origin

Source language: Dutch

Word Breakdown

Root: remonstrant, remōnstrāns

Inflected Forms

remonstrants (plural) more remonstrant (comparative) most remonstrant (superlative)

Derived Forms

remonstrantly unremonstrant Antiremonstrant Remonstrantism

Phrases

anti-Remonstrant

Questions

What does remonstrant mean?: One who remonstrates, or issues (usually formal and written) protestations.
Where does remonstrant come from?: It is traced to Dutch.

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