Port-Royalist

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English

Noun

Port-Royalist (plural Port-Royalists)

  1. (historical) One of the dwellers in the Cistercian convent of Port-Royal-des-Champs, near Paris, France, when it was the home of the Jansenists in the 17th century, among them being Antoine Arnauld, Blaise Pascal, and other famous scholars.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “Port-Royalist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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