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popish::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | papist, papistic, papistical, r.c., roman, roman catholic, romanist, romish |
Examples of popish
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Civilisation triumphed over the wilde Irishe, the superstitious, irrational popish natives.
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We took away 2 popish Inscriptions with Ora pro nobis and we beat down a great stoneing Cross on the top of the Church.
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Mr Alito's arrival on the court may be more of a swansong for Catholic America than the beginning of sustained popish hegemony.
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When Irish immigrants wanted to use their Catholic version, the Republicans came up with a series of crafty provisions to ban public money from helping teach popish nonsense.
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But the Papistes are opposite and contrarie in very many substantiall pointes of religion, and cannot but wishe the Popes authoritie and popish religion to be established.
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- Roman: of or relating to or supporting Romanism; "the Roman Catholic Church"
- (popishly) like the Pope; in a popish manner
- 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. ...
