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protester|prəʊˈtɛstə(r)|
[f. as prec. + -er1.]
1. One who makes a protestation or solemn affirmation.
1601Shakes. Jul. C. i. ii. 74 Were I a common Laugher, or did vse To stale with ordinary Oathes my loue To euery new Protester.
2. a. One who makes a protest or remonstrance.
1651C. Cartwright Cert. Relig. i. 103 To annex their Religion as a codicill to an appeal of a company of Protesters against a decree at Spira. 1794Burke Rep. Lords' Jrnls. Wks. 1842 II. 601 The reasons against the article, alleged in the protest, were by no means solely bottomed in the practice of the courts below, as if the main reliance of the protesters was upon that usage. 1812L. Hunt in Examiner 25 May 322/2 The Grenvilles and other protesters against improper expenses. 1885Manch. Exam. 14 May 6/1 The motion was carried by 54 to 4, the protesters being [etc.].
b. Sc. Hist. pl. (usu. with cap. initial.) Those Presbyterians who in 1650 protested against the union with the Royalists; also applied to those who on various later occasions formally protested against acts or decisions of the church courts.
1660Douglas in Wodrow Hist. Suff. Ch. Scot. (1721) I. Introd. 12 That it may be they were mistaken for some of their Brethren the Protesters, to whom..the King's Return is Matter of Terror. 1722Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 630 His pieces he wrote in the debate with the Protesters contain..many things as to the History of this Church. 1816Scott Old Mort. v, They had parted..at the time when the kingdom of Scotland was divided into Resolutioners and Protesters. 1855Summary Principles U.P. Ch. 2 In May 1733 the Assembly refused to hear fully the reasons which the protesters had to urge. 1882–3Schaff's Encycl. Relig. Knowl. I. 409/2 His father..belonged to the extreme Covenanting party of Protesters.
c. An opponent of the established order, esp. one who actively remonstrates over an issue of public importance; a demonstrator.
1960Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Jan. 3/2 Those cold-water apartments where hipsters and protesters..try to go their own way. 1968Listener 4 July 22/3 Absolutely and actively in sympathy with the protesters over most issues, he can..trace out the roots of their discontents. 1971‘E. Lathen’ Longer the Thread vii. 65 Thatcher..would not believe..that homicide investigations came to a halt whenever youthful protesters threatened to act up. 1976‘R. B. Dominic’ Murder out of Commission v. 41 Protesters picked up some pretty strange habits during the Vietnam War.
3. One who protests a bill or other commercial document.
1849De Quincey Eng. Mail Coach Wks. 1862 IV. 295 If it is by bills at ninety days after date that you are made unhappy—if noters and protesters are the sort of wretches whose..shadows darken the house of life. |