popery
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- antipopery noun
Etymology
Origin of popery
Example Sentences
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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
Instead of withstanding some mighty influence, it might be that of Metternich, Byron, or Eugene Sue, popery, socialism, or Polish patriotism, being foreign, they yielded to its prestige, their own judgment being vacillating and uncertain.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav
In 1535, all books favouring popery were decreed to be “seditious books.”
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac
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