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protoprotestant

protoprotestant adjective: relating to a prototypical form of the Protestant religion.

Adjective

protoprotestant (not comparable)

  1. Relating to a prototypical form of the Protestant religion.
    • By no means all these towns proved receptive to the Reformation. Douai, Arras, St. Omer, Mons, Gouda, Utrecht, Amersfoort and Groningen, to list but a few, were only lightly affected, though it would be safe to suppose that most towns, by 1566, contained significant Protestant or protoprotestant...2012, A. C. Duke, C. A. Tamse, Britain and The Netherlands: Volume VII, page 74

Origin of protoprotestant

From proto- + Protestant.

Questions about protoprotestant

What does protoprotestant mean?
Protoprotestant means relating to a prototypical form of the Protestant religion.
What part of speech is protoprotestant?
Protoprotestant is an adjective.

Words near protoprotestant in the dictionary

  1. protoproletarian
  2. protoproletariat
  3. protoproletariats
  4. protoproteose
  5. protoproteoses
  6. protoprotestant
  7. protopsaltai
  8. protopsaltis
  9. protopsychological
  10. protopsychologist
  11. protopsychologists

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