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anti-Catholicism

anti-Catholicism

9.3
Strong dislike or unfair treatment of Roman Catholics and their church
  • noun
  • /ˌæn.tiˈkæθ.ə.kɪ.zəm/
  • Slur
translation icon : anticatolicismo

Examples

  • Racial nativism, anti-Catholicism, anti-radicalism, and anti-Semitism during the early twentieth century all contributed to the movement.

    Academic text (1999)

  • anti-Catholicism can lead to discrimination against individuals who are part of the Roman Catholic faith.

  • Protests against the church were fueled by deep-rooted anti-Catholicism in the community.

  • The novel explores themes of anti-Catholicism, showing how prejudice can affect people's lives.

How Hostile

persecution
97 6.5
anti-Catholicism
  • Slur
9.3
prejudice
180 4.8
dislike
  • Texting
49 1.0
criticism
512 3.0

Surface Forms

anti-Catholicism singular
anti-Catholicisms plural

Morphology

anti-Catholicism = anti-Catholic (transparent) = anti + Catholic + ism

The noun is formed regularly from the adjective 'anti-Catholic' with the abstract noun suffix '-ism', and the meaning is directly recoverable.

Etymology

Anti-Catholicism begins with anti-, which means 'against', and ends with Catholicism, the name of the Catholic religion. So, like antiwar meaning 'against war', anti-Catholicism means being against or unfair to Catholics.