Sample sentences for PROTESTANT

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a member of or relating to any of the Western churches that separated from the Roman Catholic Church during the Reformation

Protestant churches deny universal authority of the Pope.

Protestant = any of the Western churches that separated from the Roman Catholic Church during the Reformation

Protestant work ethic
Northern Ireland has twice as many Protestants as Catholics.
My confidence in pulpit Gospel lessened at the vision of Miss Maudie stewing forever in various Protestant hells.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

Protestant = of any of the Western churches that separated from the Roman Catholic Church during the Reformation

He knew that Sissy believed in the Church...any Church, Catholic, or Protestant;
Betty Smith -- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Protestant = any of the Western churches that separated from the Roman Catholic Church during the Reformation

I feel sorry for the beautiful Protestant girls, they're doomed.
Frank McCourt -- Angela's Ashes

Protestant = a member of any of the Western churches that separated from the Roman Catholic Church during the Reformation

All that territory in the hands of Protestants and savages, while we are here to offer a better way, a truer leadership to the people of France.
Orson Scott Card -- Red Prophet
But the Protestant chaplain who was here was nothing like this man—neither so arresting nor attractive.
Theodore Dreiser -- An American Tragedy
In the Protestant homes I am told it is a Catholic problem, and in the Catholic homes, a Protestant.
Katherine Paterson -- Jacob Have I Loved
MOTHER-ROBERT: Protestants and Israelites!
Eugene Ionesco -- The Future Is in Eggs
Another time, this was eloquently illustrated in a small community where there had been much tension between Protestants and Catholics.
John Howard Griffin -- Black Like Me
All I should ask is a decent Protestant burial.
Henry James -- The American
Leery of strong Protestant leanings in the Bohemian branch of the family, the Emperor, Rudolph II, had for a time withdrawn his patronage.
Thomas Pynchon -- The Crying of Lot 49
Newton was buried in Westminster Abbey, the seat of English Protestantism.
Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
George Norris was a Republican, a Midwesterner, a Protestant and a "dry," and Herbert Hoover was all of those things.
John F. Kennedy -- Profiles in Courage
] [Footnote 209: Gustavus Adolphus (1594-1632), King of Sweden, the hero of Protestantism in the Thirty Years' War.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
Whites and blacks, Catholics and Protestants, men and women.
Mitch Albom -- Tuesdays with Morrie
It was divided into four separate chambers — Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Muslim.
Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains
However, they are controversial in the Protestant Church.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Only 138 had marked Protestant, 100 Catholic, and 46 Jewish.
Peter Jenkins -- A Walk Across America

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