Protestant denomination
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- noun
- /ˈprɒtɪstənt dɪˌnəʊmɪˈneɪʃən/
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denominación protestante
- Baptists, America's largest Protestant denomination and far and away the most important religion in the South, also split along racial lines.
- mainline Protestant denominations
- largest Protestant denomination
- most Protestant denominations
Examples
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Both Clinton and Gore are Southern Baptists, which is the largest Protestant denomination in America.
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The current growth of Pentecostalism in Canada, among the fastest of any Protestant denomination, is due partly to its multi-ethnic constituency.
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From one Protestant denomination to another.
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The same problem exists in the relationship between Protestant denominations and between them and the African independent churches.
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One of the virtues recognized by Western societies and highly valued by Protestant denominations is material success.
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By the First World War, most Protestant denominations had become assertively prohibitionist.
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As elsewhere in Latin America, Protestant denominations in Sao Gabriel had experienced a recent growth in numbers of followers.
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The UCC became the first mainline Protestant denomination to officially support same-sex marriage in 2005.
Blog text (11) -
The majority of the respondents were affiliated with mainline Protestant denominations such as Presbyterian, Baptist, Episcopal, Methodist, Lutheran, and United Church of Christ.
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The Southern Baptist Convention is a significant Protestant denomination with millions of members worldwide.
Synonyms
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A group of Christians with the same beliefs and way of worship
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A branch of a religion with its own leaders and beliefs
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A group of Christians with its own beliefs and ways of worship
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Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'Protestant' (relating to Protestant Christianity) + 'denomination' (an organized religious group). This straightforward adjective + noun combination follows regular English compounding patterns and is cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would readily understand it.
Etymology
The term Protestant denomination comes from Protestant, a name for Christians who long ago protested certain church rules, and denomination, meaning a 'named group' of churches. So a Protestant denomination is a 'named group' of Protestant churches that share the same beliefs and practices.