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
And if popery or slavery follow, we must act as becomes us.
From Reasons against the Succession of the House of Hanover with an Enquiry How far the Abdication of King James, supposing it to be Legal, ought to affect the Person of the Pretender by Defoe, Daniel
Pā′pal, belonging to, or relating to, the Pope or to popery: popish.—v.t.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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