[CONTRA- 3.] A remonstrance drawn up in reply to a previous one.
1674. Hickman, Quinquart. Hist. (ed. 2), 96. Of this Remonstrance … at length a Copy was got, and a Contra-remonstrance made.
1826. C. Butler, Life Grotius, v. 89. The Gomarists opposed to it a Contra-Remonstrance.
Hence Contra-remonstrancer = next.
1618. Barnevelt’s Apol., E. The dissensions growing betwixt the Remonstrancers, and Contra-remonstrancers.
