protestant - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'protestant' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Protestant

[ a.]

- Making a protest; protesting.
- Of or pertaining to the faith and practice of those Christians who reject the authority of the Roman Catholic Church; as, Protestant writers.

2 . Protestant

[ v.]

- One who protests; -- originally applied to those who adhered to Luther, and protested against, or made a solemn declaration of dissent from, a decree of the Emperor Charles V. and the Diet of Spires, in 1529, against the Reformers, and appealed to a general council; -- now used in a popular sense to designate any Christian who does not belong to the Roman Catholic or the Greek Church.

Meaning of 'protestant' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . protestant

[ a]

Meaning (1):
- of or relating to Protestants or Protestantism

Example in sentence:

a Protestant denomination;
Protestant churches

Nearby Words:

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Protestant ethic
Protestant ethic is Max Weber’s term for the disciplined work ethic, this worldly concerns, and rational orientation to life emphasized by Jon Calvin and his followers.

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