Word Meanings - PROTESTINGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

By way of protesting.

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• PROTESTATION
  Formerly, a declaration in common-law pleading, by which the party interposes an oblique allegation or denial of some fact, protesting that it does or does not exist, and at the same time avoiding a direct affirmation or denial. (more info) 1.
• PROTESTINGLY
  By way of protesting.
• PROTESTER
  One who protests a bill of exchange, or note. (more info) 1. One who protests; one who utters a solemn declaration. Shak.
• PROTESTANT
  One who protests; -- originally applied to those who adhered to Luther, and protested against, or made a solemn declaration of dissent from, a decree of the Emperor Charles V. and the Diet of Spires, in 1529, against the Reformers, and appealed
• PROTESTANTISM
  The quality or state of being protestant, especially against the Roman Catholic Church; the principles or religion of the Protestants.
• PROTESTANTLY
  Like a Protestant; in conformity with Protestantism. Milton.
• PROTEST
  1. To affirm in a public or formal manner; to bear witness; to declare solemnly; to avow. He protest that his measures are pacific. Landor. The lady doth protest too much, methinks. Shak. 2. To make a solemn declaration expressive of opposition;
• PROTESTATOR
  One who makes protestation; a protester.
• PROTESTANTICAL
  Protestant.
• PROTESTANCY
  Protestantism.
• SUPRAPROTEST
  An acceptance of a bill by a third person after protest for nonacceptance by the drawee. Burrill.
• UNPROTESTANTIZE
  To render other than Protestant; to cause to change from Protestantism to some other form of religion; to deprive of some Protestant feature or characteristic. The attempt to unprotestantize the Church of England. Froude.