Protn.adj.

1725 J. Thornton Let. in Dublin Rev. (1916) Apr. 318 Sir George Brown, I hear, is got to Gant, there be-moaning his folly in having tied himself up to an old Prot, who cunningly settled all she had out of his reach.

1843 M. Edgeworth Let. 3 Dec. (1971) 599 The average salary of the Irish priest is £290 per Annum and average of Prot—£120 or £130.

1883 Times 22 Oct. 9/5 The undergraduates [at Cambridge] abbreviated it [sc. Simeonite] into ‘Sim’, just as ritualistic young ladies now talk of a ‘Prot’.

1900 M. Creighton Let. 16 Nov. (1904) II. 454 The position was ‘I would meet you if I could: but I am not going to be bullied by a handful of Prots.’

1937 W. H. Auden & L. MacNeice Lett. from Iceland xiii. 204 I know a Prot Will never really kneel, but only squat.

1987 K. Lette Girls' Night Out (1989) 56 See, I come from a spiritually schizo family. My mother's a tyke. And my Dad's a Prot.

2006 Guardian (Nexis) 18 Mar. (Review pages) 7 The subsequent struggle between liberties and absolutism, Prots and Papists, took 25 years and millions of lives.

1737 R. Challoner Let. 15 Sept. in Recusant Hist. (1970) 10 351 Our Prelate here, has..absolutely refused to consent to the Parties being married first by a Priest and then by a Prot. minister.

1852 M. S. Turner Let. 6 Apr. in R. Stuart et al. Stuart Lett. (1961) I. 305 One of these formerly Prot. Ministers—told them much of the wonderful miracles wrought by the Cath. Church.

1977 P. Way Super-Celeste 100 Back in Belfast..there were Prot bombs and Catholic bombs and SAS bombs.

1981 A. Judd Breed of Heroes i. iv. 57 It included a part of the Peace Line, a few Prot streets and a large Catholic estate.

1999 Re: Can I get Some Beliefs Rom. Catholics Here? in alt.religion.christian.roman-catholic (Usenet newsgroup) 14 Feb. What ‘true Christians’ do you imagine were martyred who were NOT Catholic? You must be thinking of certain Prot missionaries.