Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Roman Catholicism.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The polity, doctrine, ceremonies, and customs peculiar to the Church of Rome.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The tenets of the Church of Rome; the Roman Catholic religion.
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- noun religion, pejorative, archaic The
tenets of theChurch of Rome ; theRoman Catholic religion .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the beliefs and practices of the Catholic Church based in Rome
Etymologies
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Examples
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After spending years slogging through Victorian anti-Catholic polemic, my impressionistic sense is that "Romanism" and "Romanist" are moderately more common than "Popery" and "Papist," but it's not as though the former pushed out the latter in fact, the same author or publication often used them interchangeably, sometimes in alternate paragraphs.
Religion 2009
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Like Father Clement, Ellmer Castle sticks "Roman Catholic" in its subtitle--not the polemically obvious "Romanism" or "Popery"--in order to muddy the waters a bit for the audience.
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Like Father Clement, Ellmer Castle sticks "Roman Catholic" in its subtitle--not the polemically obvious "Romanism" or "Popery"--in order to muddy the waters a bit for the audience.
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Englishman, and the mild and cultivated form of Romanism which is to be met with usually in England lends colour to the opinion.
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The list covered a wide range, for it included such diverse headings as "Ladies with Pasts," "Heroines of History," "Romanism,"
The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert Horace Wyndham
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More than something of a doctrinaire, her observations on "Romanism"
The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert Horace Wyndham
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No more in the political or secular sphere than in the spiritual or ecclesiastical is 'Romanism' a possible guide to the reconstruction of modern European civilization.
The Unity of Civilization Various
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There were people, it seemed, who like to thrill themselves by dallying with the wickedness of "Romanism"; somewhat as a small boy tries to see how near he can walk to the edge of a cliff.
The Metropolis Upton Sinclair 1923
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In this poem these principles of weakness and evil are embodied to him as the sicklier kind of Romanism, and the more sensual side of the French temperament.
Robert Browning 1905
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It was only then that the fusion of the seemingly discordant elements gave birth to the new "Romanism," which was to be the ruling civilisation of Italy and the Western provinces and, in virtue of the completeness of the amalgamation and the novelty of the product, was itself to be contrasted and to live for centuries in friendly rivalry with the more uncompromising Hellenism of
A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885
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