Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The system, doctrines, and ceremonies of the Church of Rome; popery: usually a term of opprobrium.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare The doctrine and ceremonies of the Church of Rome; popery.

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  • noun derogatory The Roman Catholic faith.

Etymologies

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from papist

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Examples

  • “Tillyvally for your papistry!” was answered from without;

    The Abbot 2008

  • More shame that government send dragoons out after-a few honest fellows that bring the old women of England a drop of brandy, and let these ragamuffins smuggle in as much papistry and — Hark! — was that a whistle?

    Redgauntlet 2008

  • Now, my lord, as a true Scottish man, and educated at the Mareschal – College of Aberdeen, I was bound to uphold the mass to be an act of blinded papistry and utter idolatry, whilk I was altogether unwilling to homologate by my presence.

    A Legend of Montrose 2008

  • The revolution in papistry not happening in 1689, as Peter

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • If any one hated papistry Mrs. Bolton did so; but from a similar action of religious fanaticism she had fallen into worse that papistical self-persecution.

    John Caldigate 2004

  • The answer had come, by way of George Wishart: it was Scotland who had abandoned God, led astray by the "puddle of papistry."

    Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

  • The answer had come, by way of George Wishart: it was Scotland who had abandoned God, led astray by the "puddle of papistry."

    Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

  • The reign of George the First, was a continual effort of the constitutional spirit against the remnants of papistry and tyranny, which still adhered to the government of England.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 Various

  • He dies, vowing vengeance upon Rome, and sending messages to Queen Elizabeth, "whom God hath bless'd for hating papistry."

    Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman

  • To be sure, the laws against recusants were not uniformly enforced; papistry in favourites and friends of the king was winked at, and the rich noblemen, who were able to pay fines, did not suffer much.

    English Travellers of the Renaissance Clare Howard

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