noun
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be of Scottish/Protestant/good etc stock
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By no means all the composers were Protestants.
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For some people, fundamentalist Protestants most prominently, the issue likewise has been settled, but with the opposite verdict.
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From this religious dedication, which was not exclusive to Protestants, sprang the modern era's first experiments in popular power.
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I was a Protestant in a Catholic community.
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Leonard Calvert, however, was discreet and evidently did not scandalize the large number of Protestants in his company.
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Nor did divisions and bickering between Protestants lend prestige to their faith.
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The Council effectively recognized that in a number of important matters Protestants had been right and Catholics wrong.