Romanist
Americannoun
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Disparaging. a member of the Roman Catholic Church.
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one versed in Roman institutions, law, etc.
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Also Romanicist a person versed in Romance languages, literature, or linguistics.
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Fine Arts. Romanists, a group of Flemish and Dutch painters of the 16th century who traveled to Italy and returned to Flanders and Holland with the style and techniques of the High Renaissance and of Mannerism.
noun
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a member of a Church, esp the Church of England, who favours or is influenced by Roman Catholicism
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a Roman Catholic
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a student of classical Roman civilization or law
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Etymology
Origin of Romanist
From the New Latin word Romanista, dating back to 1515–25. See Roman, -ist
Example Sentences
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The numerically strongest Romanist settlement in the U. S. therefore had no resentment for the Anglicans who met in their fourth annual Congress.
From Time Magazine Archive
Romanist and Anglican have much in common so far as the superficialities of rubrics and rite are concerned.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hooker, alarmed at this irruption of 449 schisms, to maintain established authority, or rather supremacy, was driven to take refuge in the very argument which the Romanist used with the Protestant.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac
Constantine was a Romanist like his elder brother, and was therefore treated with great suspicion and coolness by his handful of subjects.
From The Byzantine Empire by Oman, Charles William Chadwick
Henry the Eighth rejected the Pope, but surely he died a Romanist.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac
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