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Protestancy :: Protestancy (n.) Protestantism.

Protestant :: Protestant (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..

Protestant :: Protestant (a.) Making a protest; protesting.

Protestant :: Protestant (a.) Of or pertaining to the faith and practice of those Christians who reject the authority of the Roman Catholic Church; as, Protestant writers..

Protestantical :: Protestantical (a.) Protestant.

Protestantism :: Protestantism (n.) The quality or state of being protestant, especially against the Roman Catholic Church; the principles or religion of the Protestants..

Protestantly :: Protestantly (adv.) Like a Protestant; in conformity with Protestantism.

Protestation :: Protestation (n.) The act of making a protest; a public avowal; a solemn declaration, especially of dissent..

Protestation :: Protestation (n.) Formerly, a declaration in common-law pleading, by which the party interposes an oblique allegation or denial of some fact, protesting that it does or does not exist, and at the same time avoiding a direct affirmation or denial..

Protestator :: Protestator (n.) One who makes protestation; a protester.

Unprotestantize :: Unprotestantize (v. t.) To render other than Protestant; to cause to change from Protestantism to some other form of religion; to deprive of some Protestant feature or characteristic.