papist

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Commons had married another papist -- Mary of Modena.

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  1. noun Offensive Used as a disparaging term for a Roman Catholic.

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  • And I flat out refused to do the damn deed in ***** papist or christian or any religious order. —  digg.com: Stories / Popular
  • Amos Singletary of Massachussetts, one of the most outspoken critics of the Constitution, said that he "hoped to see Christians (in power), yet by the Constitution, a papist or an infidel was as eligible as they." —  AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
  • "Korean-American compassionate-conservative neoclassical-liberal libertarian-paternalist violent-papist," yesterday posted "[a] prediction on when public opinion would turn in favor of SSM" - —  西儒 ─ The Western Confucian
  • I mourned when I thought with myself that I had one child with the Maquas [Caughnawagas], a second turned papist, and a little child of six years of age in danger to be instructed in popery, and knew full well that all endeavors would be used to prevent my seeing or speaking with them." —  A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I France and England in North America
  • It was significantly initiated by the execution of a papist, an Irishman named Glover, who was accused of having bewitched the daughters of a mason of Boston, by name Goodwin. —  The Superstitions of Witchcraft
 

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  1. New Latin pāpista, from Late Latin pāpa; see pope.

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  1. from French papiste = Spanish Portuguese Italian Papista, from Middle Latin *papista, from Papa, pope: see pope.
 

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/ˈpeɪpɪst/
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