popery
Example Sentences
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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
Blackstone says: "In times of popery a great variety of impediments to marriage were made, which impediments might, however, be bought off with money."
From Men, Women, and Gods And Other Lectures by Helen H. (Helen Hamilton) Gardener
Doctor Jaquemin Hérode belonged to the High Church; a party whose system is a sort of popery without a pope.
From Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo
