protoprotestant

English

Etymology

From proto- +‎ Protestant.

Adjective

protoprotestant (not comparable)

  1. Relating to a prototypical form of the Protestant religion.
    • 2012, A. C. Duke, ‎C. A. Tamse, Britain and The Netherlands: Volume VII (page 74)
      By no means all these towns proved receptive to the Reformation. Douai, Arras, St. Omer, Mons, Gouda, Utrecht, Amersfoort and Groningen, to list but a few, were only lightly affected, though it would be safe to suppose that most towns, by 1566, contained significant Protestant or protoprotestant minorities.
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