Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The system of which the Pope is the head; popery.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Popery; -- an offensive term.
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- noun often derogatory the
Roman Catholic faith
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the beliefs and practices of the Catholic Church based in Rome
- noun offensive terms for the practices and rituals of the Roman Catholic Church
Etymologies
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Examples
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Although the parochial schools we looked at assured us they welcomed Baptist, Muslim, and Hindu children along with Catholics, Agatha was afraid I was backsliding toward papism.
EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010
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Although the parochial schools we looked at assured us they welcomed Baptist, Muslim, and Hindu children along with Catholics, Agatha was afraid I was backsliding toward papism.
EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010
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Although the parochial schools we looked at assured us they welcomed Baptist, Muslim, and Hindu children along with Catholics, Agatha was afraid I was backsliding toward papism.
EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010
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The central tenet of the Baptist faith, “soul competency”, which begat or was begotten by their anti-papism/episcopacy, actually has a lefty component to it.
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*Anti-papism : the view that the Pope is either an impostor or a medieval despot.
The Last Acceptable Prejudice de Brantigny........................ 2008
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*Anti-papism : the view that the Pope is either an impostor or a medieval despot.
Archive 2008-05-18 de Brantigny........................ 2008
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"My father was very opposed to papism, " she continued earnestly, -which is why, in his will, he insisted I must marry a communicant of the Church of England, or else.
Sharpe's Havoc Cornwell, Bernard 2003
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"They feared I might be infected with papism, " she said, fidgeting with the tassels on the edge of her shawl.
Sharpe's Havoc Cornwell, Bernard 2003
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Ignorance is the only possible cause for papism, my dear father always said, and a burning at the stake the only known cure.
Sharpe's Battle Cornwell, Bernard 1995
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It carried the roots of evil from France into Scotland, where under a different name it entered into a league with united England, with whom, after having let it in behind the curtain of its secret and having declared deadly war to papism, it cooperates even to the present day, helping out England in her exploits over the whole world with its capital and concessions, in which respect the Sanhedrin was never penurious.
The History of a Lie 'The Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion' Herman Bernstein 1905
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