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protestor|prəʊˈtɛstə(r)|
[Early mod.E. protestour, ad. obs. F. protesteur, f. protester: see protest v. and -or.]
†1. = protester 1. Obs.
1550Bale Image Both Ch. i. v. 64 The present protestours of the veritie, here liuing in the world. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. II. 493 He was..a protestor for a Community of wealth, as well as of women.
2. = protester 2 a.
1706Hearne Collect. 5 Feb. (O.H.S.) I. 178 Dr. Cawley was the more taken notice of upon Acct of his Being one of the Protestors. 1780Hist. Eur. in Ann. Reg. 121/2 He contended, that the protestors..possessed property equal, if not superior, to the petitioners. 1885Manch. Exam. 13 Feb. 5/1 It is asserted by the protestors that three names should have been so forwarded.
b. = protester 2 b. Also attrib.
1693Apol. Clergy Scot. 78 They pretend..that the generality of the Godly did adhere to the Protestors, that the Publick Resolutioners had made defection. a1715Burnet Own Time i. (1724) I. 55 A great division followed in the Kirk: Those who adhered to these resolutions were called the Publick Resolutioners: But against these some of those bodies protested, and they, together with those who adhered to them, were called the Protestors. 1834H. Miller Scenes & Leg. viii. (1857) 110 Urquhart of Cromarty..had lately ‘counterfeited the Protestor’. 1900U.P. Mag. May 209/2 When the foundations of the Protestor Synod were laid [1737–8], he was one of seven. |