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Protestantly
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English
Etymology
From en Protestant ly.
Adverb
Like a Protestant; in conformity with Protestantism.
en 1659 John Milton Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes To Protestants, therefore, whose common rule and touchstone is the Scripture, nothing can with more conscience, more equity, nothing more Protestantly can be permitted, than a free and lawful debate at all times by writing, conference, or disputation of what opinion soever, disputable by Scripture ; concluding that no man in religion is properly a heretic at this day, but he who maintains traditions or opinions not probable by Scripture, who for aught I know is the Papist only ; he the only heretic who counts all heretics but himself.
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