Protestant : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Protestant	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Protestant
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Protestant adj of or relating to Protestants or Protestantism; "Protestant churches"; "a Protestant denomination" protesting n an adherent of Protestantism the Protestant churches and denominations collectively Synonym(s): Protestant Church, Protestant
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Protestant \Prot"es*tant\, n. [F. protestant, fr. L. protestans, -antis, p. pr. of protestare. See {Protest}, 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Protestant \Prot"estant\, a. [Cf. F. protestant.] 1. Making a protest; protesting. 2. Of or pertaining to the faith and practice of those Christians who reject the authority of the Roman Catholic Church; as, Protestant* writers.