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Protestant en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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/ˈpɹɑtɪstənt/ (General-American)
/ˈpɹɒtɪstənt/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *pró Proto-Indo-European *pro- Proto-Italic *pro- Latin prō- Proto-Indo-European *tri- Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European *trito-sth₂-o-s Proto-Italic *tristos Latin *terstis Latin testis Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -o Latin testor Latin prōtestārīlbor. French protesterbor. German protestieren Proto-Indo-European *-onts Latin -ns Latin -āns Old French -antbor. Middle High German -ant German -ant German Protestantbor. ▲ French protester ▲ Old French -ant French -ant ▲ German Protestantinflu. French protestantbor. English Protestant Borrowed from either German Protestant or French protestant, one likely reinforced by the other; equivalent to protest + -ant.

Meanings

Of or pertaining to several denominations of Christianity that separated from the Roman Catholic Church based on theological or political differences during the Reformation.
- To make this perfectly clear, we shall contrast a few of the most Protestant with a few of the most Roman Catholic counties. 1855, Napoléon Roussel, Catholic and Protestant Nations Compared, volumes 1-2, page 120:
- It is not perhaps too much to say, that a more harmonious, a more decorous, a more loyal, a more Protestant, a more Christian meeting, never took place within the walls of our ancient city. 1840, Norwich Operative Protestant Association, Released statement, The Penny Protestant Operative, page 15:
- For reasons to do with the predominantly Lutheran rather than Calvinist heritage (and to some extent with the postwar division of Germany which hived off the more Protestant East), the participation of Protestants in the CDU has been small. 2004, Paul Freston, Protestant Political Parties: A Global Survey, page 27:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
most Protestant	Degree=Sup		lexicographic
more Protestant	Degree=Cmp		lexicographic
protestant		alternative	lexicographic

Deriveds

pseudo-Protestant · anti-Protestant · pre-Protestant · pro-Protestant · non-Protestant · crypto-Protestant · post-Protestant · Protestant Cay

Synonyms

Christian

Translations (38)

el προτεσταντικός (pertaining to these denominatons) · ga Protastúnach (pertaining to these denominatons) · kk протестанттық (pertaining to these denominatons) · fa پروتستان (pertaining to these denominatons) · fr protestant (pertaining to these denominatons) · de protestantisch (pertaining to these denominatons) · fi protestanttinen (pertaining to these denominatons) · it protestante (pertaining to these denominatons) · ru протеста́нтский (pertaining to these denominatons) · mi Porotehana (pertaining to these denominatons) · ca protestant (pertaining to these denominatons) · dsb protestantiski (pertaining to these denominatons) · mr प्रोटेस्टंट (pertaining to these denominatons) · ka პროტესტანტული (pertaining to these denominatons) · mh Būrotijen (pertaining to these denominatons) · nb protestantisk (pertaining to these denominatons) · pl protestancki (pertaining to these denominatons) · th โปรเตสแตนต์ (pertaining to these denominatons) · sv protestantisk (pertaining to these denominatons) · hu protestáns (pertaining to these denominatons) · uk протеста́нтський (pertaining to these denominatons) · ota پروتستان (pertaining to these denominatons) · la protestanticus (pertaining to these denominatons) · pt protestante (pertaining to these denominatons) · es protestante (pertaining to these denominatons) · cy Protestannaidd (pertaining to these denominatons) · tl Protestante (pertaining to these denominatons) · lv protestantisks (pertaining to these denominatons) · gl protestante (pertaining to these denominatons) · nn protestantisk (pertaining to these denominatons) · ast protestante (pertaining to these denominatons) · de evangelisch (pertaining to these denominatons) · vi Tin Lành (pertaining to these denominatons) · ota اهل مذاهب پروتستان (pertaining to these denominatons) · dsb ewangelski (pertaining to these denominatons) · af protestantse (pertaining to these denominatons) · ar بُرُوتِسْتَانْتِيّ (pertaining to these denominatons) · sw Mprotestanti (pertaining to these denominatons)

Protestant en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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/ˈpɹɑtɪstənt/ (General-American)
/ˈpɹɒtɪstənt/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Meanings

A member of any of several Christian denominations which separated from the Roman Catholic Church based on theological or political differences during the Reformation (or in some cases later).
- Who or what is a Catholic? This Greek word has become one of the chief battlegrounds in western Latin Christianity […] ’Catholic’ is clearly a word which a lot of people want to possess. By contrast, it is remarkable how many religious labels started life as a sneer: the Reformation was full of angry words. ‘Calvinist’ was at first a term of abuse to describe those who believed more or less what John Calvin believed; the nickname gradually forced out the rival contemptuous term ‘Picard’, which referred to Calvin’s birthplace in Noyon in Picardy. No Anabaptists ever described themselves as Anabaptist, since ‘Anabaptist’ means ‘rebaptizer’, and these radical folk believed that their adult baptism was the only authentic Christian initiation, with infant baptism signifying nothing. Even that slippery term ‘Anglican’ appears to have been first spoken with disapproval by King James VI of Scotland, when in 1598 he was trying to convince the Church of Scotland how unenthusiastic he was for the Church of England. One of the most curious usages is the growth of the word ‘Protestant’. It originally related to a specific occasion, in 1529, when at the Holy Roman Empire’s Diet (imperial assembly) held in the city of Speyer, the group of princes and cities who supported the programmes of reformation promoted by Martin Luther and Huldrych Zwingli found themselves in a voting minority: to keep their solidarity, they issued a ‘Protestatio’, affirming the reforming beliefs that they shared. The label ‘Protestant’ thereafter was part of German or imperial politics for decades, and did not have a wider reference than that. When the coronation of little King Edward VI was being organized in London in 1547, the planners putting in order the procession of dignitaries through the city appointed a place for ‘the Protestants’, by whom they meant the diplomatic representatives of these reforming Germans who were staying in the capital. Only rather later did the word gain a broader reference. It is therefore problematic to use ‘Protestant’ as a simple description for sympathizers with reform in the first half of the sixteenth century, and the reader will find that often in this book I use a different word, ‘evangelical’. That word has the advantage that it was widely used and recognized at the time, and it also encapsulates what was most important to this collection of activists: the good news of the Gospel, in Latinized Greek, the evangelium. Reformation disputes were passionate about words because words were myriad refractions of a God one of whose names was Word: a God encountered in a library of books itself simply called ‘Book’ – the Bible. It is impossible to understand modern Europe without understanding these sixteenth-century upheavals in Latin Christianity. They represented the greatest fault-line to appear in Christian culture since the Latin and Greek halves of the Roman empire went their separate ways a thousand years before; they produced a house divided. The fault-line is the business of this book. 2003, Diarmaid MacCulloch, The Reformation: A History, Penguin, →ISBN, page xviii-xix:
(historical) A member of the Church of England or Church of Ireland, as distinct from Protestant nonconformists or dissenters.
- MR. SEXTON said, he had always understood that the difference between Protestants and Presbyterians was not a difference of creed, but as to episcopacy and practice. 1893 June 14, Hansard 4th series Vol 13 HC Deb c.1001
- To unite the whole people of Ireland; to abolish the memory of all past dissensions; and to substitute the common name of Irishman in place of the denominations of Protestant, Catholic, and Dissenter—these were my means. 1827 [1796] Theobald Wolfe Tone, Memoirs Vol.1 p.64 (Henry Colburn, London) ed. William Theobald Wolfe Tone

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
Protestants	Number=Plur		lexicographic
protestant		alternative	lexicographic

Translations (56)

de Protestant (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · el προτεστάντης (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · es protestante (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · el διαμαρτυρόμενος (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · or ପ୍ରୋଟେଷ୍ଟାଣ୍ଡ (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · bg протестант (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · ko 신교도 (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · pt protestante (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · fr protestante (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · da protestant (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · fa پروتستان (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · uk протеста́нт (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · mh Būrotijen (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · pl protestant (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · acw بروتستانتي (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · ar بُرُوتِسْتَانْتِيّ (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · tl Protestante (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · nb protestant (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · cy Protestant (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · dsb protestant (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · cmn 新教徒 (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · uk протеста́нтка (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · pdt Protestant (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · ota اهل مذاهب پروتستان (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · ja プロテスタント (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · es salvacuatro (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · st moprotestanta (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · hi प्रोटेस्टेंट (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · mr प्रोटेस्टंट (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · ru протеста́нтка (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · ka პროტესტანტი (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · sv protestant (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · af protestant (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · ota پروتستان (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · th โปรเตสแตนต์ (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · eo protestanto (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · ca protestant (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · pl protestantka (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · km ប្រូតេស្តង់ (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · la Protestāns (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · mh ri-Būrotijen (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · or ପ୍ରୋଟେଷ୍ଟାଣ୍ଟ (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · mk протеста́нт (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · id Protestan (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · hu protestáns (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · it protestante (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · fr protestant (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · fi protestantti (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · gl protestante (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · ru протеста́нт (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · cs protestant (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · nn protestant (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · de Protestantin (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · mi Porotehana (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · ga Protastúnach (someone who is a member of such a denomination) · vi người Tin Lành (someone who is a member of such a denomination)

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Protestant en · ADJ

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Protestant en · NOUN

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