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Genevan   Listen
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Genevan  adj.  Of or pertaining to Geneva, in Switzerland; Genevese.






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"Genevan" Quotes from Famous Books



... figure of Coverdale, "Father Coverdale," as men used affectionately to call him, the well-known translator of the Bible, whose life had been so hardly wrung by royal intercession from Mary. Rejecting the very surplice as Popery, in his long Genevan cloak he marks the opening of the Puritan controversy over vestments which was to rage so fiercely from Parker on ...
— Stray Studies from England and Italy • John Richard Green

... has been rendered familiar to us by Byron's poetic pen. It was built by Amedeus IV., Count of Savoy, in 1238. Here languished Bonnivard in his underground cell for six years, during which time he wore a prisoner's chains for his heroic defence of Genevan liberty. ...
— Foot-prints of Travel - or, Journeyings in Many Lands • Maturin M. Ballou



Words linked to "Genevan" :   Calvinist, necessitarian, Swiss people, Huguenot, geneva, Geneve, Genf



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