protestant
English edit
Etymology edit
See Protestant. The legal sense either has the same source or is simply protest + -ant.
Adjective edit
protestant (comparative more protestant, superlative most protestant)
- Alternative letter-case form of Protestant
- a protestant effort
- protestant work ethic
- Protesting.
- 1919, Henry B[lake] Fuller, “Cope Again in the Country”, in Bertram Cope’s Year: A Novel, Chicago, Ill.: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, The Alderbrink Press, →OCLC, page 274:
- He cut his Psychology once or twice, nor could he succeed, during office hours, in keeping his mind on office-routine. His superiors became impatient and then protestant.
- 1932, Graham Greene, Stamboul Train[1], Penguin, published 1963, Part 4, Chapter 4, p. 191:
- Her sense of desolation, the knowledge that for some reason, God alone knew why, she loved him, made her for a moment protestant. Why not ? Why shouldn’t I write to him?
Noun edit
protestant (plural protestants)
- (chiefly law) One who protests; a protester.
- 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
- These are too mean parts of the pageant: and you don't hear widows' cries or mothers' sobs in the midst of the shouts and jubilation in the great Chorus of Victory. And yet when was the time that such have not cried out: heart-broken, humble protestants, unheard in the uproar of the triumph!
- 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.
- Alternative letter-case form of Protestant
Catalan edit
Adjective edit
protestant m or f (masculine and feminine plural protestants)
Noun edit
protestant m or f by sense (plural protestants)
Derived terms edit
Verb edit
protestant
Further reading edit
- “protestant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “protestant”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “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.
Czech edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
protestant m anim
- Protestant (person)
Declension edit
singular | plural | |
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nominative | protestant | protestanti |
genitive | protestanta | protestantů |
dative | protestantovi, protestantu | protestantům |
accusative | protestanta | protestanty |
vocative | protestante | protestanti |
locative | protestantovi, protestantu | protestantech |
instrumental | protestantem | protestanty |
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- protestant in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- protestant in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
From French protestant, from Latin prōtestārī 'to testify'.
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: pro‧tes‧tant
Noun edit
protestant m (plural protestanten, diminutive protestantje n)
- Protestant (a modern Christian denomination not belonging to the Catholic or Orthodox traditions)
Descendants edit
- → Papiamentu: protestant
French edit
Etymology edit
From protester + -ant. Influenced by German Protestant.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
protestant (feminine protestante, masculine plural protestants, feminine plural protestantes)
- Protestant
- Hyponym: calviniste
Related terms edit
Participle edit
protestant
Noun edit
protestant m (plural protestants, feminine protestante)
- Protestant (person)
- Synonym: parpaillot
- Hyponym: calviniste
Further reading edit
- “protestant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Noun edit
protestant m (definite singular protestanten, indefinite plural protestanter, definite plural protestantene)
- a Protestant (follower of Protestantism; member of a Protestant church)
Derived terms edit
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Noun edit
protestant m (definite singular protestanten, indefinite plural protestantar, definite plural protestantane)
- a Protestant (as above)
Derived terms edit
Polish edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
protestant m pers (female equivalent protestantka)
Declension edit
singular | plural | |
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nominative | protestant | protestanci/protestanty (deprecative) |
genitive | protestanta | protestantów |
dative | protestantowi | protestantom |
accusative | protestanta | protestantów |
instrumental | protestantem | protestantami |
locative | protestancie | protestantach |
vocative | protestancie | protestanci |
Further reading edit
- protestant in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- protestant in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French protestant.
Noun edit
protestant m (plural protestanți)
Declension edit
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) protestant | protestantul | (niște) protestanți | protestanții |
genitive/dative | (unui) protestant | protestantului | (unor) protestanți | protestanților |
vocative | protestantule | protestanților |
Serbo-Croatian edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
protèstant m (Cyrillic spelling протѐстант)
Declension edit
singular | plural | |
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nominative | protèstant | protestanti |
genitive | protestanta | protèstanātā |
dative | protestantu | protestantima |
accusative | protestanta | protestante |
vocative | protestante | protestanti |
locative | protestantu | protestantima |
instrumental | protestantom | protestantima |
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
protestant c
- a Protestant; one who follows the practice of the Christian form of Protestantism
Declension edit
Declension of protestant | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | protestant | protestanten | protestanter | protestanterna |
Genitive | protestants | protestantens | protestanters | protestanternas |