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Genevan   Listen
noun
Genevan  n.  
1.
A native or inhabitant of Geneva.
2.
A supported of Genevanism.





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... Reformation. Signs of the rising storm. Attempts at reform within the church. Immediate causes of the Reformation. Luther was the hero of the Reformation in Germany. Zwingli was the hero of the Reformation in Switzerland. Calvin establishes the Genevan system. The Reformation in England differed from the German. Many phases of reformation in other countries. Results ...
— History of Human Society • Frank W. Blackmar
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... again, very much amused at the irritable, peevish yet cringing attitude of Pichereau, the Genevan doctrinaire, who sought consolation in the greenroom of the ballet, whilst his five or six daughters sat at home, probably reading some chaste English romance, or practising sacred music within the range of the green ...
— His Excellency the Minister • Jules Claretie
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... met a Swiss woman, the wife of a Genevan, one De Lesdernier, who had been for thirty years established in Nova Scotia, but, becoming compromised in the attempt to revolutionize the colony, was compelled to fly to New England, and had settled at Machias, ...
— Albert Gallatin - American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII • John Austin Stevens
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... limestone slabs made an excellent pitch for marbles, whereas on the pebbles in the yard expertness could only be attained by heart-breaking practice. Yet we preferred them. If it did nothing else, the Genevan Hospital, by Plymouth Dock, taught us to suit ourselves to the world as we ...
— The Adventures of Harry Revel • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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... of agitation as I said this; there was a frenzy in my manner, and something, I doubt not, of that haughty fierceness which the martyrs of old are said to have possessed. But to a Genevan magistrate, whose mind was occupied by far other ideas than those of devotion and heroism, this elevation of mind had much the appearance of madness. He endeavoured to soothe me as a nurse does a child and reverted to my tale as ...
— Frankenstein - or The Modern Prometheus • Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley
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Words linked to "Genevan" :   Calvinist, Swiss, Geneve, Genf, Swiss people, Huguenot, necessitarian


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