Both Uses of
Protestant
in
The Scarlet Letter
- Here the pale clergyman piled up his library, rich with parchment-bound folios of the Fathers, and the lore of Rabbis, and monkish erudition, of which the Protestant divines, even while they vilified and decried that class of writers, were yet constrained often to avail themselves.†
Chpt 9
- Oftentimes, this Protestant and Puritan divine had plied it on his own shoulders, laughing bitterly at himself the while, and smiting so much the more pitilessly because of that bitter laugh.†
Chpt 11 *
Definition:
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(Protestant) of or relating to any of the Western churches that separated from the Roman Catholic Church during the Reformationeditor's notes: The word Protestant is based on the word protest -- in reference to the protest against the Catholic church.
The most common protestant denominations include Baptists, Pentecostals, Anglicans, Methodists, Lutherans, and Presbyterians.