ultramontanism
noun
the policy of the party in the Roman Catholic Church that favors increasing and enhancing the power and authority of the pope.
ultramontanist
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a word derived from
ultramontanism.
Example Sentences
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The general tendency of this movement was directed against Christianity as an ecclesiastical institution, sometimes chiefly against the Catholic Church which was suspected of "ultramontanist" sympathies for a foreign ecclesiastical power.
From The Grey Book by Johan Martinus Snoek
You cannot contradict yourselves so far as to decry me here as an ultramontanist and there as a liberal.
From A Twofold Life by Wilhelmine von Hillern
"So you considered me a magician; others consider me an ultramontanist, and that is something still worse."
From The Progressionists, and Angela. by Conrad von Bolanden
