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First attest 1539, from Germanic or French protestant, from Latin protestantem (nominative form protestans), past particple of protestari. Originally used of Germanic princes and free cities who declared their dissent from the decision of the Diet of Speyer (1529) denouncing the (Catholic) Reformation. The word was taken up by the Lutherans in Germany (Swiss and French preferred Reformed). It became the general word for "adherents of the Reformation in Germany," then "member of any Western church outside the Roman communion;" a sense first attested in English in 1553.

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