papistry

[ pey-puh-stree ]

noun

, Disparaging.

1. the Roman Catholic Church.

Word History and Origins

Origin of papistry¹

First recorded in 1540–50; papist + -ry

Example Sentences

And, upon my blessing, beware of blind papistry, which brings nothing but bondage to men's consciences.

From Project Gutenberg

And he answered, he did very much love some papists, albeit he hated papistry when it proved not conformable to reason and the laws of the country.

From Project Gutenberg

In face of the blessings which the Protestant Succession, as settled in our present House of Hanover, has secured to these islands, it would little become me to find a virtue in papistry; and my late lord, who early saw and abjured the errors of that faith, would have been the last to support or encourage such a thesis.

From Project Gutenberg

Still, M. H�ger can hardly be pleased by having members of his school set forth as stupid, animal, and inferior, "their principles rotten to the core, steeped in systematic sensuality," by having his religion styled "besotted papistry, a piece of childish humbug," and the like.

From Project Gutenberg

Guess, then, if thou canst, how much I love yon cavalier, who hath sucked in with his very milk the taint of papistry — for did not that Babylonish woman whom men call the Queen of England rear him up from his cradle? yea, and taught him all her sorceries.

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