popery

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Meaning

The religion of the Roman Catholic Church, comprehending doctrines and practices; -- generally used in an opprobrious sense.

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Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse. William Hazlitt

Alas the Church of England! What with Popery on one hand, and schismatics on the other, how has she been crucified between two thieves! Daniel Defoe

But to be the Vicar of Christ, to claim to exercise his prerogatives on earth, does involve a claim to his attributes, and therefore our opposition to Popery is opposition to a man claiming to be God. Charles Hodge

I may say this is a deluded generation, veiled with ignorance, that tho popery and slavery be riding in upon them, do not perceive it; tho I am sure there was no man born marked of God above another, for none comes into the world with a saddle on his back, neither any booted and spurred to ride him. Richard Rumbold

A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery. Thomas Fuller

Thompson, N. Wellington after Waterloo, pg 95. The Earl of Winchilsea accused the Duke of "an insidious design for the infringement of our liberties and the introduction of Popery into every department of the State". Source: Internet

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