protestant

CEFRB2

/prˈɑtəstənt/

noun · adjective

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In 1807, Robert Morrison, the first British Protestant missionary to China arrived in Guangzhou.
This attitude, the Protestant work ethic, still influences Americans today.

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1915 November 3, decision in the case of the State of New Mexico v. Garrett, published in 1916 among the Decisions of the Department of the Interior in Cases Relating to Public Lands, volume 44 (edited by George J Hesselman), page 490: In the case of Hyacinth...
a protestant effort
protestant work ethic

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He cut his Psychology once or twice, nor could he succeed, during office hours, in keeping his mind on office-routine. His superiors became impatient and then protestant.
1919, Henry B[lake] Fuller, “Cope Again in the Country”, in Bertram Cope’s Year: A Novel, Chicago, Ill.: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, The Alderbrink Press, →OCLC, page 274
Her sense of desolation, the knowledge that for some reason, God alone knew why, she loved him, made her for a moment protestant. Why not ? Why shouldn’t I write to him?
1932, Graham Greene, Stamboul Train, Penguin, published 1963, Part 4, Chapter 4, p. 191
These are too mean parts of the pageant: and you don't hear widows' cries or mothers' sobs in the midst of the shouts and jubilation in the great Chorus of Victory. And yet when was the time that such have not cried out: heart-broken, humble protestants, unheard in the uproar of the triumph!
1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC

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See Protestant. The legal sense either has the same source or is simply protest + -ant.