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Examples of popery
popery
What could be more natural, then, than to team up with Islam and popery to cleanse that terrible impurity?
From the economist.com
I reckon a combination of Mr Santorum's popery and unusually explicit hostility to freedom will do him in.
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No such popery should be tolerated Sam declaimed.
From the washingtontimes.com
And you can't accuse Lutherans of shameless popery.
From the evangelicaloutpost.com
Most welcome of all, there was a return to music, introduced gently, so as not to bear the faintest whiff of popery.
From the economist.com
Wren was much inspired by visits to Catholic Europe, and his earlier designs were seen to smack of popery by Anglican clergy.
From the newscientist.com
Sir Stephen Wall-a former ambassador and adviser to England's Roman Catholic leadership-says traditional anti-popery has little to do with the pope's chilly reception.
From the economist.com
Leisler was a vocal opponent of the dominion regime, which he saw as an attempt to impose popery on the province, and may have played a role in subverting Nicholson's regulars.
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The friendship of the Duke of York led to his inclusion with his brother Lawrence in the group whom the Commons early in January 1681 told the king were persons inclined to popery.
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- Offensive terms for the practices and rituals of the Roman Catholic Church
- Papist is a term, usually disparaging or an anti-Catholic slur, referring to the Catholic Church, its teaching, practices or adherents. It was coined during the English Reformation to denote a Christian whose loyalties were to the Pope, rather than to the Church of England. ...
- The crude term for Roman Catholicism, generally used by Protestant bigots.
