Romanism

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The English word “prince” is another Romanism, from Princeps Civitatis, “First Citizen,” the term that Augustus invented for himself.

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By failing to repudiate promptly a supporter's denunciation of "rum, Romanism and rebellion" in 1884, James G. Elaine lost New York's electoral votes and the presidential election against Grover Cleveland.

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And Dr. Cornelius Van Til of Westminster Theological Seminary speaks for a host of U.S. fundamentalists in charging that "Barthianism is even more hostile to the theology of Luther and Calvin than Romanism."

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For the Italians' romantic love of their homeland and their nostalgia for past glories, he espoused the cult of Romanism.

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Mr. Brownson was the most eminent convert to Romanism of this period, when conversions were frequent in Boston; and his influence was considerable in turning uneasy minds to the old faith.

From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks