Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In conformity to Protestantism or the Protestants.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb rare Like a Protestant; in conformity with Protestantism.
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Examples
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It's been several decades since I last read Emerson; I was leaning toward socialism when I was a college kid and Emerson seemed very "protestantly" socialistic--I quit reading Emerson when I got involved with the Libertarians in Holland, Michigan, reading Ludwig Von Mises and Freddie Hayak, Austrian economists, and liking it because of the liberty it offered but not liking it because it was too much Calvinism for me.
Reality Check The Daily Growler 2006
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Unluckily our ammunition was soon spent, for it is not above a year that there have been any apprehensions for Ireland, and as all that part of the country are most protestantly loyal, it was not thought necessary to arm people who would fight till they die for their religion.
Letters of Horace Walpole 01 Walpole, Horace 1890
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Unluckily our ammunition was soon spent, for it is not above a year that there have been any apprehensions for Ireland, and as all that part of the country are most protestantly loyal, it was not thought necessary to arm people who would fight till they die for their religion.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3 Horace Walpole 1757
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