Protestantismn.

1606 T. Dekker Double PP sig. D4 Single P.–Protestantisme.

1628 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. xlviii. sig. I He is troubled at this naturalnesse of Religion to Countries, that Protestantisme should bee borne so in England and Popery abroad.

1648 in J. Raymond Making News (1993) viii. 353 These are they that have blown away Popery and Protestantisme all in a breath.

1726 J. Trapp Popery iii. 205 There were Schisms..long before Popery, and consequently much longer before Protestantism..was in Being.

1775 E. Burke Speech Resol. for Concil. Colonies 18 The religion most prevalent in our Northern Colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance; it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the protestant religion.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 54 When the Jesuits came to the rescue of the papacy..Protestantism..was stopped in its progress.

1879 Nation 3 July 5/2 Nothing but Protestantism, frank and decisive, seems to content those Frenchmen who care for any Christianity at all in place of the Romanism they reject.

1938 O. C. Quick Doctrines of Creed ii. 12 The error of much modern Protestantism has been to disparage philosophy altogether.

1964 A. Watts Beyond Theol. vi. 155 I am not speaking of modern ‘liberal Protestantism’, but of that ‘old-time Bible religion’.

1991 N.Y. Times Mag. 17 Nov. 50/3 That the miller's beliefs had nothing in common with Protestantism mattered little to the Inquisitors.

1651 J. Hall Grounds & Reasons 46 The slow assistances sent to hi[s] daughter, in whose safety and protection Protestantisme was at that time so much concern'd.

a1716 R. South 12 Serm. (1717) V. 67 The only thing that makes Protestantism considerable in Christendome, is the Church of England.

1851 J. H. Newman Lect. Present Position Catholics Eng. (ed. 2) v. 173 The very flower and cream of Protestantism used to glory in the statue of King William on College Green, Dublin.

1902 Daily Chron. 28 July 7/3 Protestantism, meaning by that all the non-Roman Catholic persuasions, has held its own, but the Roman Catholics are still steadily dwindling.

1948 F. W. Dillistone in M. Warren Triumph of God iii. 80 The energy of young Protestantism was bound to be poured out in the effort to consolidate its own position within the hostile environment by which it was surrounded.

1996 L. Al-Hafidh et al. Europe: Rough Guide (ed. 3) ii. iv. 187 Many such monuments were erected as thanksgiving for deliverance from the forces of Protestantism.

1854 H. Spencer in Westm. Rev. Apr. 388 There, needs, then, a protestantism in social usages.

1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xxxvii. 366 How his protestantism against her doctrines should exhibit itself on the turf.

1929 Decatur (Illinois) Herald 9 May ii. 12/ Cynicism developed into a coarse protestantism against social customs and current philosophical opinions.