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
"But popery, my dear sir—the confessional—" "Bother!" said Dalton, with a wave of his hand.
From The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Lever, Charles James
I have found," he writes, "no account of any organ in this church during the times of popery though it is very probable there has been one.
From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Clarke, Helen Archibald
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