Definition of protestants. Meaning of protestants. Synonyms of protestants

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Definition of protestants

Protestant
Protestant Prot"es*tant, a. [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.
Protestant
Protestant Prot"es*tant, n. [F. protestant, fr. L. protestans, -antis, p. pr. of protestare. See Protest, 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.

Meaning of protestants from wikipedia

- during the 16th through 19th centuries, many Protestants lived as Crypto-Protestants. Meanwhile, in Protestant areas, Catholics sometimes lived as crypto-papists...
- Ulster Protestants are an ethnoreligious group in the Irish province of Ulster, where they make up about 43.5% of the po****tion. Most Ulster Protestants are...
- nickname "the Protestant Rome". It was especially po****r among French Protestants. Scandals and internal conflicts weakened the Protestants' position in...
- The mainline Protestant churches (sometimes also known as oldline Protestants) are a group of Protestant denominations in the United States and in some...
- Protestants were largely from a working-class, but their religious networks help speed their upward social mobility.[unreliable source?] Protestants accounted...
- Distribution of Protestants There are between 800 million and 1 billion Protestants worldwide, among approximately 2.5 billion Christians. In 2010, a...
- Italian Jews and Protestants, especially Evangelicals and Pentecostals. Thousands of Italian Jews and a small number of Protestants died in the **** concentration...
- United States, White Anglo-Saxon Protestants or WASP is a sociological term which is often used to describe white Protestant Americans of Northwestern European...
- The Salzburg Protestants (German: Salzburger Exulanten) were Protestant refugees who had lived in the Catholic Archbishopric of Salzburg until the 18th...
- disloyalty having their estates confiscated and granted to loyal Protestants. Whilst Protestants also guilty of disloyalty were to lose some of their estates...