Definition of "protest"

protest

/ˈpɹəʊ.tɛst/

verb
third-person singular simple present protests, present participle protesting, simple past and past participle protested
1. (intransitive) To make a strong objection.
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  As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.
  1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company
  U.S. and European protested against Spanish conduct in Cuba.
  2009, Cuba
2. (transitive) To affirm (something).
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  I will protest your cowardice.
  1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene i]
  Our youth, now, emboldened with his success, resolved to push the matter farther, and ventured even to beg her recommendation of him to her father's service; protesting that he thought him one of the honestest fellows in the country, and extremely well qualified for the place of a gamekeeper, which luckily then happened to be vacant.
  1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […]
  She flashed a smile at me, and, protesting an engagement with her dentist, jauntily walked on.
  1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “Ch.8”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […]
3. (transitive, chiefly Canada, US) To object to.
4. To call as a witness in affirming or denying, or to prove an affirmation; to appeal to.
  Quotations
  Fiercely [they] opposed / My journey strange, with clamorous uproar / Protesting fate supreme.
  1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,
5. (law, transitive) to make a solemn written declaration, in due form, on behalf of the holder, against all parties liable for any loss or damage to be sustained by non-acceptance or non-payment of (a bill or note). This should be made by a notary public, whose seal it is the usual practice to affix.
6. (obsolete, transitive) To publish; to make known.
noun
countable and uncountable, plural protests
1. A formal objection, especially one by a group.
2. A collective gesture of disapproval; a demonstration.
  Quotations
  All this has led to an explosion of protest across China, including among a middle class that has discovered nimbyism.
  2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist‎, volume 408, number 8848
  Sage Ip, a 29-year-old flight attendant who cast her ballot on Sunday in the Sai Ying Pun district, said she voted in the primary because she was worried that she would never get a chance to do so again. “Voting is something that is still within our capacity. We can’t express ourselves at protests anymore.”
  2020 July 13, Austin Ramzy, Elaine Yu, Tiffany May, “Hong Kong Voters Defy Beijing, Endorsing Protest Leaders in Primary”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 2020-07-14‎
3. The noting by a notary public of an unpaid or unaccepted bill.
4. A written declaration, usually by the master of a ship, stating the circumstances attending loss or damage of ship or cargo, etc.

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