Romanist

[ roh-muh-nist ]

noun

1. Disparaging. a member of the Roman Catholic Church.
2. one versed in Roman institutions, law, etc.
3. Also Ro·man·i·cist [] a person versed in Romance languages, literature, or linguistics.
4. Ro·man·ists, Fine Arts. 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.

Romanist

/ ˈrəʊmənɪst /

noun

1. a member of a Church, esp the Church of England, who favours or is influenced by Roman Catholicism
2. a Roman Catholic
3. a student of classical Roman civilization or law

Derived Forms

• ˌRomanˈistic, adjective

Other Words From

• Ro·man·is·tic adjective
• an·ti-Ro·man·ist noun
• pro-Ro·man·ist noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of Romanist¹

From the New Latin word Romanista, dating back to 1515–25. See Roman, -ist

Example Sentences

Burton sees the mimicry of the “arch-deceiver in the strange sacraments, the priests, and the sacrifices,” as the Romanist missionaries to Tibet saw the same diabolical parody of their rites in Buddhist temples.

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You may be a Romanist, but I am a Huguenot, and have read.

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You mean, where is your Romanist chit, with her white face and wheedling ways.'

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The Politiques, or moderate party, who were indifferent about religion as such, but believed that a strong government could only be formed by a Romanist king, were almost non-existent in Paris.

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The speculations of the mystics, Romanist or Protestant, need not be re-examined.

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