• adj. 新教的；新教徒的
• n. 新教；新教徒

基督教分支。來自protest,抗議，反對，-ant,人，字面意思即反對者。

Protestant (n., adj.)

1539, from German or French protestant, from Latin protestantem (nominative protestans), present participle of protestari (see protest (n.)). Originally used of German princes and free cities who declared their dissent from ("protested") the decision of the Diet of Speyer (1529), which reversed the liberal terms allowed Lutherans in 1526.

When forced to make their choice between obedience to God and obedience to the Emperor, they were compelled to choose the former. [Thomas M. Lindsay, "A History of the Reformation," New York, 1910]

The word was taken up by the Lutherans in Germany (Swiss and French preferred Reformed). It became the general word for "adherents of the Reformation in Germany," then "member of any Western church outside the Roman communion;" a sense first attested in English in 1553.

In the 17c., 'protestant' was primarily opposed to 'papist,' and thus accepted by English Churchmen generally; in more recent times, being generally opposed to 'Roman Catholic,' or ... to 'Catholic,' ... it is viewed with disfavour by those who lay stress on the claim of the Anglican Church to be equally Catholic with the Roman. [OED]

Often contemptuous shortened form Prot is from 1725, in Irish English. Protestant (work) ethic (1926) is taken from Max Weber's work "Die protestantische Ethik und der 'Geist' des Kapitalismus" (1904). Protestant Reformation attested by 1680s.

1. He abjured the Protestant faith and became King in 1594.

他放棄了新教信仰，于1594年登基為王。

來自柯林斯例句

2. I am not completely at home in any Protestant Church.

我在任何一個新教教會都不是特別自在。

來自柯林斯例句

3. Most Protestant churches now have women ministers.

如今大多數新教教會都有女牧師。

來自柯林斯例句

4. Are they Catholic or Protestant?

他們是天主教徒還是新教徒？

來自《權威詞典》

5. The students of Umtata High School were mostly Protestant.

烏姆塔塔中學的學生大多數是新教徒.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》