Adjective: protestant
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more protestant |
| Superlative | most protestant |
Sample Sentences
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a protestant effort
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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:]
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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:]
Adjectives inflected like protestant
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
See Protestant. The legal sense either has the same source or is simply protest + -ant.