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Port-Royalists

Port-Royalists is the plural of Port-Royalist.

Meaning of Port-Royalist

Noun

Port-Royalist (plural Port-Royalists)

  1. (historical) An inhabitant of the Cistercian convent of Port-Royal-des-Champs, and later of Port-Royal Abbey, near Paris, France.
    • Among the Port-Royalists when the abbey was the home of the Jansenists in the 17th century were Antoine Arnauld, Blaise Pascal, and other famous scholars.

Questions about Port-Royalists

What is Port-Royalists the plural of?
Port-Royalists is the plural of Port-Royalist.

Words near Port-Royalists in the dictionary

  1. port-o-lets
  2. port-o-potties
  3. port-o-potty
  4. Port-Royal
  5. Port-Royalist
  6. Port-Royalists
  7. Port-Vila
  8. port-wine mark
  9. port-wine marks
  10. port-wine stain
  11. port-wine stains

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Port-Royalists (page history and authors); Port-Royalist (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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