Port-royalist

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Port-royalist \Port-roy"al*ist\, n. (Eccl. Hist.)
     One of the dwellers in the Cistercian convent of Port Royal
     des Champs, near Paris, when it was the home of the
     Jansenists in the 17th century, among them being Arnauld,
     Pascal, and other famous scholars. Cf. {Jansenist}.
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