Crossword clues for protested
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Protest \Pro*test"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Protested; p. pr. & vb. n. Protesting.] [F. protester, L. protestari, pro before + testari to be a witness, testis a witness. See Testify.]
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To affirm in a public or formal manner; to bear witness; to declare solemnly; to avow.
He protest that his measures are pacific.
--Landor.The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
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To make a solemn declaration (often a written one) expressive of opposition; -- with against; as, he protest against your votes.
--Denham.The conscience has power . . . to protest againts the exorbitancies of the passions.
--Shak.Syn: To affirm; asseverate; assert; aver; attest; testify; declare; profess. See Affirm.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: protest)
Usage examples of "protested".
The British government protested against Spain conquering territory, and occupying strongholds on the African coasts opposite to Gibraltar.
When Luther had protested against the abuse of indulgences he did so as a loyal son of the church.
Even when he signed it, however, he had no intention of executing the provisions of the treaty which, he secretly protested, had been wrung from him by force.
Catholics like Usingen protested at the excessive reverence given to Aristotle at the expense of Christ.
He protested that he would risk all his crowns for the sake of revenge, and appealed to Germany, with its Lutherans, for support.
Indeed, he protested that his success was not due to science, but to the study of the prophet Isaiah.
Therefore, when the primate and six bishops protested against the Declaration of Indulgence, James sent them to the Tower.
Burnet, the typical Whig, had protested against such limitations as should quite change the form of our government, and render the crown titular and precarious.
Rome alone protested against the Protestant king, and spoke only of a margrave of Brandenburg until after the death of Frederic II.
The bill was further opposed by the Earl of Carnarvon, who protested against the divorce of religion from education, and expressed his fears that such a precedent might be applied to Oxford and Cambridge.
Hope, the under-secretary, protested against the course pursued by Mr.
Against this the Brazilian government protested, and sent a circular note conveying a copy of the protest to all other powers.
Lord Palmerston, on behalf of his court and government, disclaimed it, and demanded that the royal family of Spain should be left free to follow their own inclinations, excepting only as regarded members of the royal family of France, against a union with which the English whig foreign minister protested, as a breach of the treaty of Utrecht.
The English and French ministers protested against this as a violation of the treaty of Vienna.
In 1841 he had an opportunity of upholding Sir Robert Peel in power for some time, and of aiding him in the great work of commercial and economical reform, against which both had all their life protested and straggled.