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
These superstitions arose in what are called primitive times, and are certainly no part of popery, if in that word we include any especial reference to the Roman see.
From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam
Papacy, pā′pa-si, n. the office of the Pope: the authority of the Pope: popery: the Popes, as a body.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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