Cal‧vin, John /ˈkælvən, ˈkælvɪn/
(1509–64) a French
Protestant leader and
theologian (=someone who studies religion and religious beliefs), whose ideas strongly influenced the
reformation (=the time when many Christians left the Catholic religion and started the Protestant religion) ⇒
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