popery
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With so many important battles to be fought, does white magic still have a place in the world and is it even comparable to the witchery popery of 400 years ago?
From The Guardian ● Feb. 16, 2019
A fear of popery might have appealed to some Tories.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 21, 2016
And while Pope Francis may be the first actual pope to appear in a film, he'll be following a long and varied tradition of on-screen popery.
From The Verge ● Feb. 2, 2016
He grew enamoured of his portraiture, and without waiting a moment to enquire whether it in the slightest degree resembled the reality, he volunteered the championship of Irish popery.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 by Various
From 1641 to 1649 an Irish parliament sat at Kilkenny, and Charles I. and the Tories dreamt of an alliance between Irish popery and English loyalism.
From The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses by James Anthony Froude
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