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Webster 1913 Edition

Protestant

Prot′es-tant

,
Noun.
[F.
protestant
, fr. L.
protestans
,
-antis
, p. pr. of
protestare
. See
Protest
,
Verb.
]
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.

Prot′es-tant

,
Adj.
[Cf. F.
protestant
.]
1.
Making a protest; protesting.
2.
Of or pertaining to the faith and practice of those Christians who reject the authority of the Roman Catholic Church;
as,
Protestant
writers
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Protestant

PROT'ESTANT

,
Adj.
Pertaining to those who, at the reformation of religion,protested against a decree of Charles V. and the diet of Spires; pertaining to the adherents of Luther, or others of the reformed churches; as the protestant religion.

PROT'ESTANT

,
Noun.
One of the party who adhered to Luther at the reformation in 1529, and protested, or made a solemn declaration of dissent from a decree of the emperor Charles V. and the diet of Spires, and appealed to a general council. This name was afterwards extended to the followers of Calvin, and Protestants is the denomination now given to all who belong to the reformed churches. The king of Prussia has, however, interdicted the use of this name in his dominions.

Definition 2024

Protestant

Protestant

See also: protestant

English

Alternative forms

Noun

Protestant ‎(plural Protestants)

  1. (Christianity) 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 sometimes later).

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Adjective

Protestant ‎(comparative more Protestant, superlative most Protestant)

  1. (Christianity) Of or pertaining to several denominations of Christianity that separated from the Roman Catholic Church based on theological or political differences during the Reformation.
    • 1840, Norwich Operative Protestant Association, Released statement, The Penny Protestant Operative, page 15,
      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.
    • 1855, Napoléon Roussel, Catholic and Protestant Nations Compared, Volumes 1-2, page 120,
      To make this perfectly clear, we shall contrast a few of the most Protestant with a few of the most Roman Catholic counties.
    • 2004, Paul Freston, Protestant Political Parties: A Global Survey, page 27,
      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.

Translations

German

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ant

Noun

Protestant m ‎(genitive Protestanten, plural Protestanten, feminine Protestantin)

  1. Protestant (person)
  2. protester

Declension

Derived terms

protestant

protestant

See also: Protestant

English

Adjective

protestant ‎(comparative more protestant, superlative most protestant)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Protestant
    a protestant effort‎
    protestant work ethic‎

Noun

protestant ‎(plural protestants)

  1. (chiefly law) One who protests; a protester.
    • 1915 November 3, decision in the case of the State of New Mexico v. Garrett, published in 1916 among the Decisions of the Department of the Interior in Cases Relating to Public Lands, volume 44 (edited by George J Hesselman), page 490: In the case of Hyacinthe Villeneuve a homestead entry had been allowed upon a tract of land that had been patented to the Santa Fe Railroad Company, whose grantees had expressed a willingness to reconvey in order that effect might be given to the equities of the homesteader, whereas in the present case the State stands in the position of a protestant.
  2. Alternative letter-case form of Protestant

Catalan

Verb

protestant

  1. present participle of protestar

Czech

Noun

protestant m

  1. Protestant (person)

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Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: pro‧tes‧tant

Etymology

From French protestant, from Latin prōtestārī 'to testify'.

Noun

protestant m ‎(plural protestanten, diminutive protestantje n)

  1. Protestant (a modern Christian denomination not belonging to the Catholic or Orthodox traditions)

French

Etymology

From protester +‎ -ant. Influenced by German Protestant.

Pronunciation

Adjective

protestant m ‎(feminine singular protestante, masculine plural protestants, feminine plural protestantes)

  1. Protestant

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Verb

protestant

  1. present participle of protester

Noun

protestant m ‎(plural protestants, feminine protestante)

  1. Protestant (person)

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

protestant m ‎(definite singular protestanten, indefinite plural protestanter, definite plural protestantene)

  1. a Protestant (follower of Protestantism; member of a Protestant church)

Derived terms

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

protestant m ‎(definite singular protestanten, indefinite plural protestantar, definite plural protestantane)

  1. a Protestant (as above)

Derived terms

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /protěstant/
  • Hyphenation: pro‧te‧stant

Noun

protèstant m ‎(Cyrillic spelling протѐстант)

  1. (Christianity) Protestant

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

protest +‎ -ant

Noun

protestant c

  1. a Protestant; one who follows the practice of the Christian form of Protestantism

Declension

Inflection of protestant 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative protestant protestanten protestanter protestanterna
Genitive protestants protestantens protestanters protestanternas

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Etymology

From German Protestant or French protestant; equivalent to protest +‎ -ant.

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