Definition of "protesting"
Protestation.
Quotations
I’ve known more way made in a woman’s graceBy such confederate arts, than could be wonBy a long siege of amorous enginry,Soft flatteries, sighs, protestings infinite,And all the fervor of impatient love.
1779, Robert Jephson, The Law of Lombardy, London: T. Evans, act I, scene 1