Romish
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He was startled, and like his ancestors, almost terrified by the suspicion that the Anglican hierarchy was dominated by distinctly Romish proclivities.
From Time Magazine Archive
The answer is that he is a slender, grey-crested person with a Romish nose and a sartorial perfection suggestive of the stage.
From Time Magazine Archive
The following is, perhaps, more curious than our previous quotations, as it tells of the pre-Christian antiquity of a common Romish custom:— 264.
From Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities by Inman, Thomas
In 1603 he married; and in 1605 he accompanied Sir Edmund Bacon to Spa, with the special aim, he says, of acquainting himself with the state and practice of the Romish Church.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" by Various
Often have I done this while a Romish priest.
From Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete by Hogan, William
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