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(1):

(a.) Making a protest; protesting.

(2):

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

(3):

(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.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Protestant'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​p/protestant.html. 1828.
 
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