popery
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With so many important battles to be fought, does white magic still have a place in the world and is it even comparable to the witchery popery of 400 years ago?
From The Guardian ● Feb. 16, 2019
A fear of popery might have appealed to some Tories.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 21, 2016
And while Pope Francis may be the first actual pope to appear in a film, he'll be following a long and varied tradition of on-screen popery.
From The Verge ● Feb. 2, 2016
From 1641 to 1649 an Irish parliament sat at Kilkenny, and Charles I. and the Tories dreamt of an alliance between Irish popery and English loyalism.
From The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses by James Anthony Froude
In 1638 he was said to be converted to Rome, and two years later he was imprisoned for refusing to sign the new canons denouncing popery and affirming the divine right of kings.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various
