anti-Catholicism
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- noun
- /ˌæn.tiˈkæθ.ə.kɪ.zəm/
- Slur
Examples
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Racial nativism, anti-Catholicism, anti-radicalism, and anti-Semitism during the early twentieth century all contributed to the movement.
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anti-Catholicism can lead to discrimination against individuals who are part of the Roman Catholic faith.
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Protests against the church were fueled by deep-rooted anti-Catholicism in the community.
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The novel explores themes of anti-Catholicism, showing how prejudice can affect people's lives.
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Surface Forms
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.