Protestant
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- noun
- /ˈprɒtɪstənt/
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protestantismo
- "Mainline" Protestants outnumber evangelicals among the 59% of the state that is Protestant.
- Protestants and Catholics
- Mainline Protestants
- Fundamentalist Protestants
Examples
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The anti-abortion campaign separates Catholics from most mainline Protestants, but it unites them with evangelicals.
Academic text (2011) -
"Our common baptism" is now a phrase often used in ecumenical discourse between Catholics, Anglicans, Protestants, and some Orthodox.
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The southeast was the focus of Protestant strength.
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You can be American and a catholic or American and a protestant... or American and a Jew.
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Time for real Protestants to step up.
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Do you realize that practically every President of the United States was a Mason and a Protestant?
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The respondents were overwhelmingly Roman Catholic (close to 80 percent), followed by Protestant (17 percent).
Academic text (2008) -
By and large, relations between Catholics and Protestants in Texas have been amicable.
Academic text (1996) -
Seventy-eight percent of Catholics voted for Kennedy, whereas 63 percent of white Protestants voted for Nixon.
Academic text (1992) -
About 40 percent of the student population identifies as Protestant, with about 7 percent identifying as Methodist.
Synonyms
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A branch of Christianity made of churches that split from the Catholic Church in the 1500s
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Churches that split from the Catholic Church and follow Christian teachings different from Catholic ones
Compounds
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Churches that split from the Catholic Church and follow Christian teachings different from Catholic ones
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A group of Protestant churches that share the same beliefs and practices
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A 16th-century movement that changes the Roman Catholic Church and leads to new Christian churches
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A white person with British family background who follows Protestant Christianity and is often from a socially important group
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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 Latin protestari, 'to say publicly' or 'to protest'. Over time the name came to mean all the churches that began by protesting Catholic ways, so Protestant can mean the whole branch of Christianity formed from those groups.