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.