Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Protestant in the extreme.
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Examples
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The Commissioner had a knack of being ultra-protestant on such occasions.
South Wind Norman Douglas 1910
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It affected for the worse the feeling between England and Ireland, for in those days to be ultra-protestant was to be anti-Irish; and it greatly aggravated, first the storm about the Maynooth grant in 1845, and then the far wilder storm about the papal aggression six years later.
The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 John Morley 1880
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