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Definition of Protestants
1. protestant [n] - See also: protestant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Protestants
Literary usage of Protestants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Civilization in England by Henry Thomas Buckle (1866)
"The growing indifference «if the higher classes of protestants threw the management
of their party into the hands of the clergy. ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The protestants became excited and Charles IX grew angry, declaring that the
peace edict must be observed. He went to visit the wounded Coligny and ..."
3. The History of England from the Accession of James II. by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1856)
"With French protestants who had been driven into exile by the edicts of Lewis
... The bill was evidently meant for the benefit, not of French protestants or ..."
4. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1908)
"v merely to harass the protestants by the most rigid interpretation of the Edict and
... Yet in that territory there were 17000 protestants, while the Roman ..."
5. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1908)
"merely to harass the protestants by the most rigid interpretation of the Edict and
... Yet in that territory there were 17000 protestants, while the Roman ..."
6. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"The protestants, however, failed to avail themselves of their possible opportunities,
largely through the unwonted docility and pliability of Philip. ..."
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