Protestants

 [prot-uh-stuhnt or, for 4, 6, pruh-tes-tuhnt]  

Prot·es·tant

   [prot-uh-stuhnt or, for 4, 6, pruh-tes-tuhnt]
noun
1.
any Western Christian who is not an adherent of a Catholic, Anglican, or Eastern Church.
2.
an adherent of any of those Christian bodies that separated from the Church of Rome during the Reformation, or of any group descended from them.
3.
(originally) any of the German princes who protested against the decision of the Diet of Speyer in 1529, which had denounced the Reformation.
4.
(lowercase) a person who protests.
adjective
5.
belonging or pertaining to Protestants or their religion.
6.
(lowercase) protesting.

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Protestants is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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Origin:
1530–40; < German or French, for Latin prōtestantēs, plural of present participle of prōtestārī to bear public witness. See protest, -ant

Related forms
an·ti-Prot·es·tant, noun, adjective
non-Prot·es·tant, noun, adjective
pro-Prot·es·tant, adjective, noun
un·prot·es·tant, adjective
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