Port Royal

noun

a village in S South Carolina, on Port Royal island: colonized by French Huguenots 1562.

a historic town on SE Jamaica at the entrance to Kingston harbor: a former capital of Jamaica.

former name of Annapolis Royal.

Example sentences from the Web for port royal

Racine, believing his honour touched, joined in the fray and ridiculed the bigotry of Port-Royal.

Queens of the French Stage |H. Noel Williams
In every way, the influence of Montaigne was repugnant to the men of Port-Royal.

Pascal's Penses |Blaise Pascal
The same had been perceived by the authors of the Port-Royal Logic; a work to which he has made no allusion.

Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, Vol. 2 |Henry Hallam
Port-Royal may have been the cause of the civil war waged by the Frondists against the government.

Women of Modern France (Illustrated) |Hugo Paul Thieme (1870-1940)

Academic theology was not a department in which Pascal was versed; when necessary, the fathers of Port-Royal came to his aid.

Pascal's Penses |Blaise Pascal

British Dictionary definitions for port royal

Port Royal

noun

a fortified town in SE Jamaica, at the entrance to Kingston harbour: capital of Jamaica in colonial times

the former name (until 1710) of Annapolis Royal

(French pɔr rwajal) an educational institution about 27 km (17 miles) west of Paris that flourished from 1638 to 1704, when it was suppressed by papal bull as it had become a centre of Jansenism. Its teachers were noted esp for their work on linguistics: their Grammaire générale et raisonnée exercised much influence

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Port Royal

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