Protestant
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3.7
- noun
- /ˈprɒtɪstənt/
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protestante
- And you look back today, even as a Protestant or a Catholic, and you ask yourself, what was this about?
- Protestants and Catholics
- evangelical Protestants
- Catholics and Protestants
No, that comes from Catholic and Protestants arguing amongst each other.
- No, that comes from Catholic and Protestants arguing amongst each other.
- And then there were the the Protestants who had to leave, right?
- Well, before that, the Reformed Protestants had their own Bible.
- So Catholics may have a little bit stronger view of this than Protestants would.
- So my dad had become Protestant.
- I think it's quite clear from polling, especially about kind of mainline Protestants.
- Catholics and Protestants were friends, neighbors until the civil rights came.
- They were highly skilled craftspeople and they worked primarily as weavers and they were Protestants.
- So on the one hand, Catholics and Protestants, on the other hand, Christians, Jews and Muslims.
- And it it meant that in the beginning that that Catholics and and Protestants, they were living in the same country but in different towns.
- I think there's an advantage sometimes if you have deep faith, whether you're, you know, Catholic, Protestant, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, you know, whatever.
- But what that fails to account for is the only reason that slavery continued for so long was the white Protestants who were justifying it and doing it right.
- And I had Indians, Pakistanis, Protestants, Catholics, blacks, white, Polish, Russian.
Examples
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Jim's a Protestant.
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Spoken like a true Protestant.
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And for this reason it has been said that no good Protestant can speak against this bill.
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You know, the Protestant side still have weird problems with the whole Pope thing.
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- But I am a Protestant.
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My mother was a Catholic who had to leave the church because she married a Protestant.
Fiction book (2002) -
His mother was a Catholic and his father a Protestant; they ran a grocery in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
Fiction book (1991) -
Numerous Baptists, other Protestants, and some Jews join them in that belief.
Academic text (1990) -
In many instances, it was Protestants, not Catholics, who were punished for their religious beliefs.
Academic text (1993) -
As a dedicated Protestant, she attends church services every Sunday and participates in community outreach programs.
Compounds
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2.7
Churches that split from the Catholic Church and follow Christian teachings different from Catholic ones
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6.0
A group of Protestant churches that share the same beliefs and practices
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6.5
A 16th-century movement that changes the Roman Catholic Church and leads to new Christian churches
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7.2
A white person with British family background who follows Protestant Christianity and is often from a socially important group
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4.9
A belief that hard work, discipline, and saving money are morally good, often linked to Protestant Christianity
A Christian church in the United States that comes from the Church of England
A member of a Protestant church who helps the minister with services and visits sick people
- Slur
A church member who seems showy and more focused on appearance than religion
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Protestant comes from the Latin protestari, 'to say publicly' or 'to protest', and you can remember it from the common word protest, which means to speak out. That's why a Protestant is a person who joined or followed those groups that protested the Catholic Church.