Protestant
['prɒtɪstənt] or ['prɑtɪstənt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an adherent of Protestantism.
(adj.) protesting .
(adj.) of or relating to Protestants or Protestantism; 'Protestant churches'; 'a Protestant denomination' .
杰拉尔丁校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(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.
(a.) Making a protest; protesting.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the faith and practice of those Christians who reject the authority of the Roman Catholic Church; as, Protestant writers.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Practically the National Assembly wanted at one blow to make the church in France Protestant, in organization if not in doctrine. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Britain was producing a great industrial population, Protestant or sceptical; she had agricultural labourers indeed, but no peasants. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The Princes of the Protestant countries when they seized upon the national churches early apprehended the necessity of gripping the universities also. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It was under Charles that the Protestant doctrines that now prevailed in Germany spread into the Netherlands. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I am a Protestant: I will not bear that kind of discipline: Monsieur, I _will not_. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Mr. Giles, are you a Protestant? 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- The Irish Catholics had made a massacre of the Protestant English in Ireland, and now Cromwell suppressed the Irish insurrection with great vigour. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The poor girls were tutored to report in Catholic ears whatever the Protestant teacher said. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- They formed a Protestant community in necessary permanent conflict with the Catholic remainder of Ireland. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- His Most Catholic Majesty of France hesitated as little as any Protestant. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He inquired, not unkindlywhy, being a Protestant, I came to him? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- A pensionnaire, to whom I had rendered some little service, exclaimed one day as she sat beside me: Mademoiselle, what a pity you are a Protestant! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- I'm a Protestant--our church does not forbid divorce in such cases. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- The people were often bitterly Protestant. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The patent starts out with the motto: Defending King George, your Country, and Lawes, Is defending Yourselves and Protestant Cause. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- When the massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Eve deluged France with the blood of Protestants Catherine saw that Palissy was spared from the general destruction. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- And yet when was the time that such have not cried out: heart-broken, humble protestants, unheard in the uproar of the triumph! 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- They became Protestants as the struggle grew in bitterness. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- There is a difference of theory and belief on this point amongst Protestants as amongst other sects, I answered. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Protestants are rarely superstitious; these morbid fancies will not beset _you? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- The great nobles were not at first Protestants. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- They knew we were foreigners and Protestants, and not likely to feel admiration or much friendliness toward them. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- He could see in me nothing Christian: like many other Protestants, I revelled in the pride and self-will of paganism. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- The Reformation had made many Protestants in that part of France, and Palissy was one of them. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The English silk manufacture, for instance, was founded by French Protestants. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The Ulster Protestants were treated little better than the Catholics in these matters, and they were the chief of the rebels. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Mademoiselle, do you Protestants believe in the supernatural? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- But shall we imitate idolatrous papists, we that are enlightened Protestants? 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- The strong arm of England also intervened to protect the Protestants in the south of France, who were being hunted to death by the Duke of Savoy. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The education of the next generation of Protestants was broken up, and the parents had to give Catholic instruction or none. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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