Thesaurus: protestant

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1. 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.
2. a. Making a protest; protesting.
3. a. Of or pertaining to the faith and practice of those Christians who reject the authority of the Roman Catholic Church; as, Protestant writers.
4. adj. of or relating to Protestants or Protestantism
5. n. an adherent of Protestantism
6. n. the Protestant churches and denominations collectively
7. adj. protesting
8. 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. 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.
9. One who protests; -- originally applied to those who adhered toLuther, and protested against, or made a solemn declaration ofdissent from, a decree of the Emperor Charles V. and the Diet ofSpires, in 1529, against the Reformers, and appealed to a generalcouncil; -- now used in a popular sense to designate any Christianwho does not belong to the Roman Catholic or the Greek Church.
10. j:59/n:41 n. an adherent of Protestantism a. of or relating to Protestants or Protestantism s. protesting