— Huguenotic , adj. — Huguenotism , n.
/hyooh"geuh not'/ or, often, /yooh"-/ , n.
a member of the Reformed or Calvinistic communion of France in the 16th and 17th centuries; a French Protestant.
[ 1555-65; Hugues (name of a political leader in Geneva) and eidgenot, back formation from eidgenots, Swiss var. of G Eidgenoss confederate, lit., oath comrade ]