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Protestantism Definition


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Protestant
protestant
noun
    1. A member of any of the Christian churches which embraced the principles of the Reformation and, rejecting the authority of the pope, separated from the Roman Catholic Church.
    2. A member of any body descended from these.
adj
    1. Relating or belonging to Protestants.
Derivative: Protestantism
noun
    Etymology: 16c: originally applied to those princes and others who in 1529 protested against an edict denouncing the Reformation.



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