papist

• “From about the year 1580, besides the term papist, employed with opprobrious intent, the followers of the old religion were often called Romish or Roman Catholics.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux

• “Perhaps that could be called a papist bull, though hardly with impunity.”

  Verbatim: VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol 2 No 1

• “This preference of hers was so strongly associated with Catholicism that some of her subjects would later question the sincerity of Elizabeth's profession of the Protestant faith because of her fondness for sumptuous "papist" altar cloths. 163”

  From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558

• “To be a "papist" or "hear Mass" -- which were construed as the same thing -- was punishable by death as high treason.”

  A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.

• “A certain number of "papist" priests took the oath, and the "papist" religion was thus established here and there, though it continued to be disturbed by the incessant arbitrary acts of interference on the part of the administrative staff of the Directory, who by individual warrants deported priests charged with inciting to disturbance.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI

• “Perhaps someone whom this 'papist' judge had loved very much had been cruelly put to death, and perhaps that was the reason he suggested this savage punishment for Quaker Richard.”

  A Book of Quaker Saints

• “But she recommended the Parliament to conciliatory measures; to avoid extremes; to drop offensive epithets, like "papist" and "heretic;" to go as far as the wants of the nation required, and no farther.”

  Beacon Lights of History

• “Take _Sheemus a Cocka_ to h-- l, sir," said Phil, "we don't want him -- he's a kind of papist; take him away to h-- l out of this.”

  Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two

• “In the report of that case we find that the plaintiff's counsel informed the court that Mr. Justice Buller had recently tried on circuit a case of the King v. Sparkes: that the prisoner, in that case, was a "papist" and that it came out at the trial that he had made a confession of his crime (a capital one) to a Protestant clergyman: that this confession was received in evidence by the judge: and that the prisoner was convicted and executed.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock

• “34 The Ruine of Rome was punctuated with belligerent language of this sort, and Dent used "papist" and "Romish" as the worst of epithets.”

  Luther and English Apocalypticism: The Role of Luther in Three Seventeenth-Century Commentaries on the Book of Revelation

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