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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A wave of conversions to Protestantism and a surge of defections to secularism have weakened the church’s once-ironclad hold.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 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
Through the Renaissance and the upheaval of Protestantism, through Martin Luther and all that, Freemasonry changed the world.
From Salon • Aug. 13, 2023
The Van Gogh home and church community was a small island of Protestantism in the much larger Catholic community of Zundert, and all North Brabant, the province in the southern Netherlands where they lived.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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