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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Roman Catholic Church The policy that absolute authority in the Church should be vested in the pope.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The doctrines of ultramontanes; the views of that party in the Church of Rome which places an absolute authority in matters of faith and discipline in the hands of the Pope, in opposition to the views of that party which would place the national churches, such as the Gallican, in partial independence of the Roman curia, and make the Pope subordinate to the statutes of an ecumenical council. According to ultramontanism, the Pope is superior to general councils, independent of their decrees, and is considered to be the source of all jurisdiction in the church. The Vatican Council of 1869-70 virtually established the views of ultramontanism as dogmas of the Roman Catholic Church.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A Roman Catholic philosophy that emphasises the prerogatives and powers of the Pope

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The principles of those within the Roman Catholic Church who maintain extreme views favoring the pope's supremacy; -- so used by those living north of the Alps in reference to the Italians; -- rarely used in an opposite sense, as referring to the views of those living north of the Alps and opposed to the papal claims. Cf. Gallicanism.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. (Roman Catholic Church) the policy that the absolute authority of the church should be vested in the pope

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