protestant

See Protestant. The legal sense either has the same source or is simply protest +‎ -ant.

protestant (comparative more protestant, superlative most protestant)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Protestant

   a protestant effort

   protestant work ethic

protestant (plural protestants)

1. (chiefly law) One who protests; a protester.
   • 1915 November 3, decision in the case of the State of New Mexico v. Garrett, published in 1916 among the Decisions of the Department of the Interior in Cases Relating to Public Lands, volume 44 (edited by George J Hesselman), page 490: In the case of Hyacinthe Villeneuve a homestead entry had been allowed upon a tract of land that had been patented to the Santa Fe Railroad Company, whose grantees had expressed a willingness to reconvey in order that effect might be given to the equities of the homesteader, whereas in the present case the State stands in the position of a protestant.
2. Alternative letter-case form of Protestant

protestant (masculine and feminine plural protestants)

1. Protestant

protestant m or f (plural protestants)

1. Protestant

• protestantisme

protestant

1. present participle of protestar

• “protestant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “protestant” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “protestant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “protestant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): [ˈprotɛstant]

protestant m

1. Protestant (person)

• protestantství n

From French protestant, from Latin prōtestārī 'to testify'.

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• Hyphenation: pro‧tes‧tant

protestant m (plural protestanten, diminutive protestantje n)

1. Protestant (a modern Christian denomination not belonging to the Catholic or Orthodox traditions)

From protester +‎ -ant. Influenced by German Protestant.

• IPA^(key): /pʁɔ.tɛs.tɑ̃/

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protestant (feminine singular protestante, masculine plural protestants, feminine plural protestantes)

1. Protestant

• protestantisme

protestant

1. present participle of protester

protestant m (plural protestants, feminine protestante)

1. Protestant (person)

• “protestant” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

protestant m (definite singular protestanten, indefinite plural protestanter, definite plural protestantene)

1. a Protestant (follower of Protestantism; member of a Protestant church)

• protestantisk

protestant m (definite singular protestanten, indefinite plural protestantar, definite plural protestantane)

1. a Protestant (as above)

• protestantisk

• IPA^(key): /prɔˈtɛ.stant/

protestant m pers (feminine protestantka)

1. Protestant
2. (archaic) protest participant

• protestant in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• IPA^(key): /protěstant/
• Hyphenation: pro‧te‧stant

protèstant m (Cyrillic spelling протѐстант)

1. (Christianity) Protestant

protest +‎ -ant

protestant c

1. a Protestant; one who follows the practice of the Christian form of Protestantism

• protestantism
• protestantisk