Protestantism
Americannoun
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the religion of Protestants.
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the Protestant churches collectively.
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adherence to Protestant principles.
noun
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the religion or religious system of any of the Churches of Western Christendom that are separated from the Roman Catholic Church and adhere substantially to principles established by Luther, Calvin, etc, in the Reformation
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the Protestant Churches collectively
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adherence to the principles of the Reformation
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of Protestantism
First recorded in 1640–50; Protestant + -ism
Example Sentences
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The rising cohorts of women’s-rights campaigners bore less of an imprint of the orthodox Protestantism than those of Stanton’s generation and had no interest in editing the Bible.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
Indonesia has six officially recognised religions -- Islam, Protestantism, Catholicism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Confucianism.
From BBC • Sep. 5, 2024
Ufology, like Protestantism, is a big-tent religion, and “A lot of this overlaps,” Janix said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2024
Unlike his Catholic contemporaries John Dowland, John Bull and Richard Dering, Byrd didn’t flee the country, opting instead to stay and, in part, abide by the new, state-enforced Protestantism.
From New York Times • Jul. 4, 2023
He didn’t mean to start a breakaway church, but within a few decades swathes of Europe had switched to one form of Protestantism or another.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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