单词 | unprotestant |
释义 | unprotestantadj. Not Protestant; not consonant with the spirit, principles, or beliefs of Protestantism. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > [adjective] > not unprotestant-like1587 unprotestant1645 1645 H. Hammond Considerations Change of Church Govt. 12 A kind of countenancing that unchristian (I am sure unprotestant) Doctrine..which perchance some may be betrayed to by this example. 1648 G. Bate Regall Apol. 90 Their un-Protestant, un-Christian, unparalell'd Proceedings. a1722 J. Toland Coll. Several Pieces (1726) II. 235 Nor are many less alarm'd at the late unprotestant and unpolitick Addresses of certain Irish Bishops. 1771 A. M. Toplady Free Thoughts Projected Applic. Parl. 9 Blessed be God, these happy Nations know nothing at present, of this black, bigotted, unprotestant Intolerancy. 1839 J. S. Mill in London & Westm. Rev. Apr. 504 The unprotestant and unchristian doctrines..which are extensively professed. 1841 N. Wiseman Remarks Let. from W. Palmer 53 How moderate, how un-Protestant, is the language of St. Epiphanius! 1881 W. R. Smith Old Test. in Jewish Church i. 7 This point of view is, however, thoroughly unprotestant. 1919 Sabbath Recorder 27 Jan. 100/1 There are many indications in England and the United States..of a steady unprotestant trend. 2008 Bibliothèque d'Humanisme & Renaissance 70 470 Bellarmine's separation of church and state and religious dogma and natural law sound very modern and particularly unprotestant in this era. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1645 |
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