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单词 Protestant
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Definition of Protestant in English:

Protestant

noun ˈprɒtɪst(ə)ntˈprɑdəstənt
  • A member or follower of any of the Western Christian Churches that are separate from the Roman Catholic Church in accordance with the principles of the Reformation, including the Baptist, Presbyterian, and Lutheran Churches.

    新教徒(根据宗教改革原则脱离罗马天主教的各西方基督教会教徒,包括浸礼会、长老会和路德宗教会)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In common with many Irish Protestants, he was horrified at the execution of Charles I.
    • There are now more Latino Protestants in the US than there are either Jews or Muslims.
    • The building was first founded as a Huguenot Church for Protestants fleeing Catholic oppression in France.
    • They are on a quest to find all the Protestants who used to live in the South but, according to Uncle Andy, have now gone missing.
    • Many Protestants were leaving the province to go to university in Britain, and often they did not return.
    • At the end of his life, Erasmus was at odds with both Protestants and Roman Catholics.
    • Evangelical Protestants sought the reformation of society as well as individuals.
    • Some Protestants are joining the other faithful who use prayer beads as a tool of devotion.
    • The derisive response of many Protestants the following day was to pin twists of sponge to their lapel.
    • As a patron of church reform and champion of the Dutch Protestants, he was a sitting duck for Catholic polemicists.
    • In those rock 'n' roll years, young Catholics and Protestants had even begun to mix as never before.
    • It's a minority Church also in the north of Ireland where most Protestants are Presbyterians.
    • She didn't argue that Protestants were there because they had nowhere else to go.
    • Many evangelical Protestants also want to erode the separation of church and state.
    • The Huguenots were French Protestants who had been persecuted for their faith.
    • Charles V had wanted abuses looked at first in an attempt to please the Protestants and hopefully tempt them back to the church.
    Synonyms
    nonconformist, freethinker, recusant

Protestants are so called after the declaration (protestatio) of Martin Luther and his supporters dissenting from the decision of the Diet of Spires (1529), which reaffirmed the edict of the Diet of Worms against the Reformation. All Protestants reject the authority of the papacy, both religious and political, and find authority in the text of the Bible, made available to all in vernacular translation

adjective ˈprɒtɪst(ə)ntˈprɑdəstənt
  • Relating to or belonging to any of the Protestant Churches.

    (与)新教教会(有关)的

    the Protestant religion
    the family were staunchly Protestant
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The major Protestant churches refrained from explicit endorsement of the Liberals.
    • The bells of Catholic and Protestant churches rang out across Germany at noon.
    • We belong to an Anglo Saxon Protestant tradition in which color was always suspect.
    • This is a new-built church for Protestant worship, enclosed within a little palisaded fence.
    • What is disturbing is that eighty per cent of these converts come from Protestant church backgrounds.
    • The appeal of Protestant hymns and psalms cut across all boundaries.
    • He soon determined to have Protestant religion in the land and devotion to the Bible.
    • Anglican Britain and Catholic Belgium industrialised before more notable Protestant countries.
    • It is not coincidence that the first modern industrial societies were predominantly Protestant in religion.
    • However, nearly a year of Edward's short Protestant reign had been lost in debate.
    • Many decrees issued by the council deliberately opposed Protestant viewpoints.
    • It is true to a lesser degree of evangelical and independent Protestant groups as well.
    • Catholic and Protestant army chaplains blessed the guns of the troops in England and Germany.
    • He leaves those who want to run away from the discipline's Protestant past no place to hide.
    • The sheer diversity of Protestant churches, all of which recognize the same canon, is ample proof of this.
    • That is of course about what we have come to expect of the declining older Protestant churches.
    • Even the most rational and least decorated of Protestant churches had an unmissable pulpit for the spreading of the Word.
    • In the Protestant section of the church, no person has ever achieved an authority equal to that of the pope.
    • Five years ago there were only four of us doing this work in the Protestant churches.
    • Today many urban Protestant churches in the USA boast a large choir and a staff of musicians.

Derivatives

  • Protestantization

  • noun
    • The object, as many pietists put it, was to ‘Christianize the Catholics,’ to force Catholic and Lutheran children into public schools, which could then be used as an instrument of pietist Protestantization.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The other significant trend within the Protestantization process in Mexico is its increasing regionalization, or, strictly speaking, geographical shift of the ‘weight’ of the process.
      • Furthermore, not only have the advocates of the Protestantization process often exaggerated its impact - so have its critics.
  • Protestantize

  • verb ˈprɒtɪst(ə)ntʌɪzˈprɑdəst(ə)nˌtaɪz
    [with object]
    • Make Protestant; convert to Protestantism.

      an attempt to Protestantize Catholic traditions
      Example sentencesExamples
      • he grew up in the Protestantized England of Elizabeth I
      • This group of believers is actively resisting increasing social ‘Protestatization’ with a ‘Protestantized’ Catholicism.
      • This finally leads me to his claim in his second article that following the Second Vatican Council the Mass was ‘Protestantised’.
      • If you want to Protestantize the Catholic Church, you're going to get Protestant-type results.

Origin

Mid 16th century: via German or French from Latin protestant- 'protesting', from Latin protestari (see protest).

Definition of Protestant in US English:

Protestant

nounˈprɑdəstəntˈprädəstənt
  • A member or follower of any of the Western Christian churches that are separate from the Roman Catholic Church and follow the principles of the Reformation, including the Baptist, Presbyterian, and Lutheran churches.

    新教徒(根据宗教改革原则脱离罗马天主教的各西方基督教会教徒,包括浸礼会、长老会和路德宗教会)

    Protestants are so called after the declaration (protestatio) of Martin Luther and his supporters dissenting from the decision of the Diet of Spires (1529), which reaffirmed the edict of the Diet of Worms against the Reformation. All Protestants reject the authority of the papacy, both religious and political, and find authority in the text of the Bible

    Example sentencesExamples
    • As a patron of church reform and champion of the Dutch Protestants, he was a sitting duck for Catholic polemicists.
    • She didn't argue that Protestants were there because they had nowhere else to go.
    • The building was first founded as a Huguenot Church for Protestants fleeing Catholic oppression in France.
    • They are on a quest to find all the Protestants who used to live in the South but, according to Uncle Andy, have now gone missing.
    • The derisive response of many Protestants the following day was to pin twists of sponge to their lapel.
    • Many Protestants were leaving the province to go to university in Britain, and often they did not return.
    • Charles V had wanted abuses looked at first in an attempt to please the Protestants and hopefully tempt them back to the church.
    • There are now more Latino Protestants in the US than there are either Jews or Muslims.
    • At the end of his life, Erasmus was at odds with both Protestants and Roman Catholics.
    • In those rock 'n' roll years, young Catholics and Protestants had even begun to mix as never before.
    • Some Protestants are joining the other faithful who use prayer beads as a tool of devotion.
    • It's a minority Church also in the north of Ireland where most Protestants are Presbyterians.
    • The Huguenots were French Protestants who had been persecuted for their faith.
    • Evangelical Protestants sought the reformation of society as well as individuals.
    • Many evangelical Protestants also want to erode the separation of church and state.
    • In common with many Irish Protestants, he was horrified at the execution of Charles I.
    Synonyms
    nonconformist, freethinker, recusant
adjectiveˈprɑdəstəntˈprädəstənt
  • Relating to or belonging to any of the Protestant Churches.

    (与)新教教会(有关)的

    the Protestant religion
    the family were staunchly Protestant
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It is true to a lesser degree of evangelical and independent Protestant groups as well.
    • Many decrees issued by the council deliberately opposed Protestant viewpoints.
    • Catholic and Protestant army chaplains blessed the guns of the troops in England and Germany.
    • It is not coincidence that the first modern industrial societies were predominantly Protestant in religion.
    • Five years ago there were only four of us doing this work in the Protestant churches.
    • Even the most rational and least decorated of Protestant churches had an unmissable pulpit for the spreading of the Word.
    • He soon determined to have Protestant religion in the land and devotion to the Bible.
    • The appeal of Protestant hymns and psalms cut across all boundaries.
    • What is disturbing is that eighty per cent of these converts come from Protestant church backgrounds.
    • The bells of Catholic and Protestant churches rang out across Germany at noon.
    • In the Protestant section of the church, no person has ever achieved an authority equal to that of the pope.
    • Today many urban Protestant churches in the USA boast a large choir and a staff of musicians.
    • That is of course about what we have come to expect of the declining older Protestant churches.
    • The major Protestant churches refrained from explicit endorsement of the Liberals.
    • However, nearly a year of Edward's short Protestant reign had been lost in debate.
    • We belong to an Anglo Saxon Protestant tradition in which color was always suspect.
    • The sheer diversity of Protestant churches, all of which recognize the same canon, is ample proof of this.
    • This is a new-built church for Protestant worship, enclosed within a little palisaded fence.
    • He leaves those who want to run away from the discipline's Protestant past no place to hide.
    • Anglican Britain and Catholic Belgium industrialised before more notable Protestant countries.

Origin

Mid 16th century: via German or French from Latin protestant- ‘protesting’, from Latin protestari (see protest).

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