papist

American  

[pey-pist] / ˈpeɪ pɪst /

noun

1. a Roman Catholic.

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adjective

1. papistical.

papist British  

/ ˈpeɪpɪst /

noun

1. derogatory another term for Roman Catholic

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Other Word Forms

• antipapist noun
• nonpapist noun
• papistical adjective
• papistlike adjective
• papistly adverb
• papistry noun
• propapist noun

Etymology

Origin of papist

1515–25; earlier papista < New Latin. See pope, -ist

Example Sentences

He told her of that woodland country on the borders of three counties, where the papists had long lived undisturbed and where the Gunpowder Plot had had its centre.

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The foreign ambassadors' chapels were used by English papists, who thus obtained liberty of worship, while the London Protestant nonconformists were shamefully persecuted.

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Clearly, however, it was not to the papists alone that such an explanation commended itself.

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Three causae pro�goumenae, to use the language of the dialecticians, may be plainly discerned in this drama; namely, religion, the soldierly qualities of Vogelsberg, and the hostility of the nobles and papists.

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For what did the right teaching of their own Church signify to the papists of the sixteenth century?

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