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JOHN KNOX

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• JOHN KNOX (noun)
The noun JOHN KNOX has 1 sense:

1. Scottish theologian who founded Presbyterianism in Scotland and wrote a history of the Reformation in Scotland (1514-1572)

Familiarity information: JOHN KNOX used as a noun is very rare.

• JOHN KNOX (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Scottish theologian who founded Presbyterianism in Scotland and wrote a history of the Reformation in Scotland (1514-1572)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

John Knox; Knox

Instance hypernyms:

historian; historiographer (a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it)

theologian; theologiser; theologist; theologizer (someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology)

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