protestantism
IPA: prˈɑtʌstʌntɪzʌm
Root Word: Protestantism
noun
- The Protestant (rather than the Roman Catholic or Orthodox) Christian faith.
- Collectively, the Protestant churches or the Protestants.
- The beliefs held by the Protestant churches.
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Examples of "protestantism" in Sentences
- Calvinist protestantism is the perfect accompaniment to teabagger parnaoia and FoxNews alarmism.
- "And ere the schoolmaster could call his protestantism to his aid, he had ended his prayer with the cry:
- This was known as protestantism: and to its varieties it was not the business of the legislature to have regard.
- Parliament therefore was bound to establish and endow some kind of protestantism, and not to establish or endow popery.
- And, in every point, the opposition to what I may be allowed to call the protestantism of the nineteenth century is so manifest, that we cannot but feel that the peculiar character of the system is to be traced to what I have before noticed -- the extreme antipathy of its founders to the spirit which they felt to be predominant in their own age and country.
- Protestant missionaries came into these pueblos and disturbed the order of things which bestowed power among an elite practicing this unique form of Roman Catholicism and converts to protestantism resisted, in general, compliance with long established community practices including participation in important community affairs requring a form of "tithing" and community service and obedience to the council in power.
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