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† ˈProtestancy Obs.
[f. next + -cy.]
The condition of being a Protestant; the Protestant religion, system, or principles; = Protestantism 1. In 17th c., spec. the system of the reformed Church of England, as distinguished on the one hand from Popery, on the other from Presbyterianism and Puritanism.
1604Supplic. Masse Priests §41 Puritanisme differing from Protestancie in 32 articles of doctrine (as their owne bookes and writings doe witnesse). 1612J. Chamberlain in Crt. & Times Jas. I (1848) I. 162 He renounced all religions, Papistry, Protestancy, Puritanism, and all other, and took himself only to God. 1655G. Hall (title) The Triumphs of Rome over Despised Protestancie. 1687Refl. upon Pax Vobis 32 Presbytery..would crush Protestancy if it could. 1688Penn Let. Wks. 1726 I. Life 137 The Common Protestancy of the Kingdom. 1822J. Milner Vind. Ends Relig. Controv. 59 Recanting the whole system of Protestancy.
b. The Protestant community: = Protestantism 2.
1711in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 196 This death miserably contristated the whole Protestancy of the three nations. |