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Quotation dates: 1678
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Protestative, adj. [Protest v. Cf. Protestator n.] Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a protest. — 1678 J. Brown Hist. Indulgence (1783) 157.
And … this is all the ministerial protestative mission, which they have unto the actual exercise of their ministry in these places
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