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English
Etymology
From anti- + Remonstrant.
Noun
Antiremonstrant (plural Antiremonstrants)
- Rare spelling of anti-Remonstrant.
1688, Nicholas Stratford, The People’s Right to Read the Holy Scriptures Asserted; republished as John Cumming, editor, A Preserve Against Popery, in Several Select Discourses , volume 5, 1848, page 374: the Remonstrants and Antiremonstrants, will as soon unite, as the Dominicans with the Jesuits or the Franciscans.
1772–73, George Campbell, On Systematic Theology: Lecture V; republished as Lectures on Pulpit Eloquence, 1824, page 144:I am far from thinking, that the cavils and logomachies of our Supralapsarians and Sublapsarians, Remonstrants, Antiremonstrants, and Universalists of the last age are one jot more intelligible or more edifying
2010 , John Locke, “A Letter Concerning Toleration”, in Michael Silverthorne, transl., edited by Richard Vernon, Locke on Toleration, →ISBN, page 41:And if gatherings, solemn assemblies, celebration of feast days, sermons, and public worship are permitted at all, they should all be permitted on equal terms to Remonstrants, Antiremonstrants, Lutherans, Anabaptists, and Socinians.