popery
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- noun
- /ˈpoʊpəri/
- Slur
- Unusually for an English Protestant, Freke does not equate the Roman Catholic Church with the anti-Christ, nor does he suggest that Popery will be destroyed in the New Jerusalem:
Examples
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Then may the Christian Lord guide my hand... ...against your Roman popery!
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Recall Ussher's fulminations against popery, an attitude shared by his Anglican brethren in charge.
Academic text (1991) -
Not even if what he is doing is to keep your new church safe from popery?
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His will, without which we shall see his realm restored to popery!
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But, Your Grace, the Princess Mary will restore your realm to popery.
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The reformation of your church is still incomplete, the danger that your country could relapse into a pit of popery still great.
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The war with Catholic Mexico (1846-1848), for example, provided another opportunity for anti-Catholic sentiment to attach to concerns about popery and Catholic loyalty.
Academic text (2004) -
For it coincided with ever-growing threats to the safety of the queen and the realm, threats connected not with the little local difficulty of Puritanism but with the global menace of international popery.
Academic text (2018) -
He thought that this had no operative value, refuting the idea of sacred language, which he described as putting 'confidence in syllables': he said belief in this was evidence of either witchcraft or popery.
Academic text (2011) -
Many people criticized the festival for promoting popery and its associated rituals.
Synonyms
A belief that the Pope has authority in the Roman Catholic Church
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Popery comes from the word pope plus the ending -ery, which names a practice or group and is often used to show dislike. So popery originally meant 'things of the pope' and became an insulting word for the beliefs and rituals of the Roman Catholic Church.