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 Protestant ['prɑtɪstənt]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 新教徒

a. 新教的, 新教徒的

[法] 抗议人, 抗诉人, 异议人




    protestant
    [ noun ]
    1. an adherent of Protestantism

    2. <noun.person>
    3. the Protestant churches and denominations collectively

    4. <noun.group>
    [ adj ]
    1. of or relating to Protestants or Protestantism

    2. <adj.pert>
      Protestant churches
      a Protestant denomination
    3. protesting

    4. <adj.all>


    Protestant \Prot"es*tant\, n. [F. protestant, fr. L. protestans,
    -antis, p. pr. of protestare. See {Protest}, 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.


    Protestant \Prot"es*tant\, a. [Cf. F. protestant.]
    1. Making a protest; protesting.

    2. Of or pertaining to the faith and practice of those
    Christians who reject the authority of the Roman Catholic
    Church; as, Protestant writers.

    1. The battle for control of the nation's largest Protestant denomination enters its 11th year Tuesday, with moderates making an "11th hour" bid for the presidency of the Southern Baptist Convention.
    2. Sinn Fein, the outlawed Irish Republican Army's legal wing, accused Protestant extremists of carrying out a random sectarian attack.
    3. A Canadian Protestant clergyman arrived Friday seeking to deliver a petition from a Christian human rights group to Hezbollah.
    4. "No way will unionist (Protestant) leaders sit down and talk to the mouthpiece of the IRA, Gerry Adams," Robinson said.
    5. To Northern Ireland's unionists, the Protestant.
    6. The group wants to unite the predominantly Protestant province with the 95 percent Catholic Republic of Ireland under socialist rule.
    7. The news agency quoted the supporters as saying Marshall had been warned by police in recent days that he was on a Protestant paramilitary hit list.
    8. No group immediately claimed responsibility, but suspicion fell on Protestant paramilitaries opposed to the outlawed Irish Republican Army, a mainly Roman Catholic group fighting British rule of the province.
    9. The leaks stirred a furor in the province, the implication being that secret intelligence is falling into the hands of Protestant gangs and helping them choose assassination targets.
    10. Some of the tense crowd apparently suspected another Protestant assault following the gun and grenade attack at Milltown Catholic cemetery.
    11. Protestant extremists formed organizations to battle the IRA.
    12. Southern Baptists elected a fundamentalist minister president Tuesday, solidifying conservative control of the nation's largest Protestant denomination.
    13. The IRA is fighting to oust Britain from Northern Ireland and unite the predominantly Protestant province with the Roman Catholic Irish Republic.
    14. More than 100 such covenants are estimated functioning between Catholics and Episcopal, Lutheran, United Methodist, Presbyterian and other Protestant congregations.
    15. On Saturday, an IRA bomb killed a Protestant couple and their 6-year-old son as they were driving just north of the Ireland-Northern Ireland border.
    16. Most of the Africans are Roman Catholic or Protestant.
    17. Protestant political leaders oppose any weakening of British control over the province's affairs.
    18. VISN is operated by a consortium of 22 faith groups in the Eastern Orthodox, Jewish, Roman Catholic and Protestant religions.
    19. The nation's largest Protestant denomination has set a goal of having 5,000 missionaries and 50,000 churches by the year 2000.
    20. He was once in partnership with two Roman Catholics, but they sold out after IRA intimidation. Most of Mr Henry's 600 employees are Protestant.
    21. Chikane, secretary-general of the South African Council of Churches, to which most Protestant denominations belong, said police entered his home in the black township of Soweto at about 3 a.m. looking for his brother, Khotso.
    22. Even through the early 1960s, the moral ethos of public schools was sufficiently Protestant as to not generate concern, even though Evangelicals had lost force and credibility as a religious movement.
    23. NO ONE EVER died from hard work, we reassure ourselves in those Western countries which have adopted the Protestant work ethic.
    24. After formal Protestant and Catholic services were discontinued at the youth center some time ago, Lockhart said, he instead met weekly with from four to eight youths.
    25. Police sources and moderate Catholic leaders blamed the attack on Protestant extremists taking random revenge for a series of IRA bombings and shootings in Northern Ireland, Britain and West Germany, which left six dead and 37 injured last week.
    26. The communist government has taken significant steps toward reconciliation with Vietnam's Roman Catholic and Protestant minorities, but it remains in serious dispute with the Vatican.
    27. Protestant politicians, long opposed to the agreement, said the Ryan affair showed the accord wasn't working and demanded that it be scrapped.
    28. Press reports had raised expectations of a breakthrough in the so-called "talks about talks" that have been going on for six months between Catholic and Protestant leaders in Northern Ireland.
    29. Mr Major, a self-declared unionist, cannot agree anything without the consent of the Protestant majority.
    30. The Protestant cry of "no surrender" had echoes on the Roman Catholic side as Northern Ireland today marked 20 years of living with British troops.
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