Protestantism
['prɑtɪstənt,ɪzm]
Definition
(noun.) the theological system of any of the churches of western Christendom that separated from the Roman Catholic Church during the Reformation.
Edited by Ervin--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being protestant, especially against the Roman Catholic Church; the principles or religion of the Protestants.
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Examples
- You nurslings of Protestantism astonish me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- You were made for our faith: depend upon it our faith alone could heal and help you--Protestantism is altogether too drycold, prosaic for you. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- My little English Puritan, I love Protestantism in you. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- This was particularly the case with the great leader of German Protestantism, Martin Luther (1483-1546). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- You are good--Père Silas calls you good, and loves you--but your terrible, proud, earnest Protestantism, there is the danger. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Protestantism in breaking up the universal church had for a time broken up the idea of a universal human solidarity. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He set himself against those spirits of independence and disunion, the Protestant princes, and he made war against Protestantism in France. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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