predikant

/ ˌprɛdɪˈkænt /

noun

1. a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church, esp in South Africa

Word History and Origins

Origin of predikant¹

from Dutch, from Old French predicant, from Late Latin praedicans preaching, from praedicāre to preach

Example Sentences

One Sunday it would be an Anglican priest, the next a Dutch Reform predikant, the next a Methodist minister.

From Literature

There was a parson, or predikant, also accompanying the commandos.

From Project Gutenberg

The predikant knew something of Jacoba’s strange story; he was a man of some refinement and much sympathy; and it did the quiet Dutchwoman good to have a talk with the minister she had known so long.

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Ja, I have often heard the predikant talk of Calvinus—and preach about him too.

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The predikant having made a speech to high Heaven, in the guise of a long prayer thoroughly in accordance with the prevailing sentiment of the meeting, the latter broke up.

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