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protestant

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See also: Protestant

English

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Etymology

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See Protestant. The legal sense either has the same source or is simply protest +‎ -ant.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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protestant (comparative more protestant, superlative most protestant)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Protestant
    a protestant effort
    protestant work ethic
  2. Protesting.

Noun

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protestant (plural protestants)

  1. (chiefly law) One who protests; a protester.
    • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair [], London: Bradbury and Evans [], published 1848, →OCLC:
      These are too mean parts of the pageant: and you don't hear widows' cries or mothers' sobs in the midst of the shouts and jubilation in the great Chorus of Victory. And yet when was the time that such have not cried out: heart-broken, humble protestants, unheard in the uproar of the triumph!
    • 1915 November 3, decision in the case of the State of New Mexico v. Garrett, published in 1916 among the Decisions of the Department of the Interior in Cases Relating to Public Lands, volume 44 (edited by George J Hesselman), page 490: In the case of Hyacinthe Villeneuve a homestead entry had been allowed upon a tract of land that had been patented to the Santa Fe Railroad Company, whose grantees had expressed a willingness to reconvey in order that effect might be given to the equities of the homesteader, whereas in the present case the State stands in the position of a protestant.
  2. Alternative letter-case form of Protestant

Catalan

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Adjective

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protestant m or f (masculine and feminine plural protestants)

  1. Protestant

Noun

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protestant m or f by sense (plural protestants)

  1. Protestant

Derived terms

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Verb

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protestant

  1. gerund of protestar

Further reading

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Czech

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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protestant m anim

  1. Protestant (person)

Declension

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Further reading

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  • protestant”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • protestant”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

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Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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From French protestant, from Latin prōtestārī 'to testify'.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: pro‧tes‧tant

Noun

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protestant m (plural protestanten, diminutive protestantje n)

  1. Protestant (a modern Christian denomination not belonging to the Catholic or Orthodox traditions)

Descendants

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  • Papiamentu: protestant

French

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Etymology

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From protester +‎ -ant. Influenced by German Protestant.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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protestant (feminine protestante, masculine plural protestants, feminine plural protestantes)

  1. Protestant
    Hyponym: calviniste
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Participle

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protestant

  1. present participle of protester

Noun

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protestant m (plural protestants, feminine protestante)

  1. Protestant (person)
    Synonym: parpaillot
    Hyponym: calviniste

Descendants

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Further reading

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia no

Noun

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protestant m (definite singular protestanten, indefinite plural protestanter, definite plural protestantene)

  1. a Protestant (follower of Protestantism; member of a Protestant church)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Noun

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protestant m (definite singular protestanten, indefinite plural protestantar, definite plural protestantane)

  1. a Protestant (as above)

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Polish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /prɔˈtɛs.tant/
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  • Rhymes: -ɛstant
  • Syllabification: pro‧tes‧tant

Noun

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protestant m pers (female equivalent protestantka)

  1. Protestant
  2. (archaic) protest participant

Declension

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Further reading

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  • protestant in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • protestant in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French protestant.

Noun

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protestant m (plural protestanți)

  1. Protestant

Declension

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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative protestant protestantul protestanți protestanții
genitive-dative protestant protestantului protestanți protestanților
vocative protestantule protestanților

Serbo-Croatian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /protěstant/
  • Hyphenation: pro‧te‧stant

Noun

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protèstant m (Cyrillic spelling протѐстант)

  1. (Christianity) Protestant

Declension

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Swedish

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Etymology

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protest +‎ -ant

Noun

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protestant c

  1. a Protestant; one who follows the practice of the Christian form of Protestantism

Declension

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