All 4 Uses of
Protestant
in
The Mill on the Floss
- Protestantism sat at ease, unmindful of schisms, careless of proselytism: Dissent was an inheritance along with a superior pew and a business connection; and Churchmanship only wondered contemptuously at Dissent as a foolish habit that clung greatly to families in the grocery and chandlering lines, though not incompatible with prosperous wholesale dealing.†
Chpt 1.12
- He thought religion was a very excellent thing, and Aristotle a great authority, and deaneries and prebends useful institutions, and Great Britain the providential bulwark of Protestantism, and faith in the unseen a great support to afflicted minds; he believed in all these things, as a Swiss hotel-keeper believes in the beauty of the scenery around him, and in the pleasure it gives to artistic visitors.†
Chpt 2.1
- Book IV The Valley of Humiliation Chapter I A Variation of Protestantism Unknown to Bossuet Journeying down the Rhone on a summer's day, you have perhaps felt the sunshine made dreary by those ruined villages which stud the banks in certain parts of its course, telling how the swift river once rose, like an angry, destroying god, sweeping down the feeble generations whose breath is in their nostrils, and making their dwellings a desolation.†
Chpt 4.1
- Certainly the religious and moral ideas of the Dodsons and Tullivers were of too specific a kind to be arrived at deductively, from the statement that they were part of the Protestant population of Great Britain.†
Chpt 4.1 *
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.