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| the act or practice of indulging; gratification of desire. |
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| of or pertaining to Luther, adhering to his doctrines, or belonging to one of the Protestant churches that bear his name. |
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| any Western Christian who is not an adherent of a Catholic, Anglican, or Eastern Church. |
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| The Peace of Augsburg was a treaty between Charles V and the forces of the Schmalkaldic League, an alliance of Lutheran princes, on. |
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| to reduce to nothing; obliterate. |
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| of or pertaining to the Church of England. |
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| an act of predestinating or predestining. |
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| adherence to these doctrines. |
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| a system of government by priests claiming a divine commission. |
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| pertaining to or based on the principle of ecclesiastical government by presbyters or presbyteries. |
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| of or pertaining to Anabaptists or Anabaptism. |
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| a member of a Roman Catholic religious order (Society of Jesus) founded by Ignatius of Loyola in 1534. |
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| the council of the Roman Catholic Church that met between 1545 and 1563 at Trent in S Tyrol. Reacting against the Protestants, it reaffirmed traditional Catholic beliefs and formulated the ideals of the Counter-Reformation |
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