papalism

American  

[pey-puh-liz-uhm] / ˈpeɪ pəˌlɪz əm /

noun

1. the papal system.

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Other Word Forms

• antipapalist noun
• papalist adjective
• papalistic adjective

Etymology

Origin of papalism

First recorded in 1865–70; papal + -ism

Example Sentences

As such it is distinguished on the one hand from Presbyterianism, government by elders, and Congregationalism, in which the individual church or community of worshippers is autonomous, and on the other from Papalism.

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Of these the latter, who separated from the Roman communion after the promulgation of the dogma of papal infallibility, represent a pure revolt of the system of Episcopacy against that of Papalism.

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Mary was determined from the first to restore papalism as well as Catholicism, but she had to go slowly.

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With all its veneer of English freedom, it was still a very ceremonious society, and though money had tempered the rigidity of its forms and opinions, there was always visible in the background of the noisiest party Black Papalism, a dominant Army and the hope of the Orleanist succession.

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Yet it was not altogether fruitless, since twelve 147years of resolute and moderate action raised England, which under Henry III. was of no account in European affairs, to a position only second to that of France, and that under conditions more nearly approaching the modern conception of a political balance and a European state system than feudalism, imperialism, and papalism had hitherto rendered possible.

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