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  • It was Venice the most antipapist city in Italy to order the ghetto, and Venice did this during a war she was losing.

    Paddy Hitler, Max Mosley and the dilemma of Nazi children 2008

  • They were good-hearted people who vanquished the gnarlier elements of their party, the paranoid Roosevelt-haters, the flat Earthers and Prohibitionists, the antipapist antiforeigner element.

    Once Upon a Time in America 2005

  • He was a strong antipapist, and a great student of the Apocalypse, besides being a hard-working bishop.

    The Journal to Stella 2003

  • I took my mother's antipapist line and ragged John Kennedy's presidential efforts.

    My Dark Places Ellroy, James, 1948- 1996

  • It was thus not a little anomalous that in a British settlement, founded under the auspices of such a redoubted antipapist as Queen Elizabeth, there was a Roman Catholic church with a priest in charge, yet neither a church nor a pastor of the established religion.

    The Story of Madras Glyn Barlow

  • He was a strong antipapist, and a great student of the Apocalypse, besides being a hard-working bishop.

    The Journal to Stella Jonathan Swift 1706

  • John Knox adapted John Calvin’s antipapist scheme of “voluntary associations,” organizing his churches as little communities whose elders—“presbyters”—were elected by the laity.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • John Knox adapted John Calvin’s antipapist scheme of “voluntary associations,” organizing his churches as little communities whose elders—“presbyters”—were elected by the laity.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

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