popish

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

In the Renaissance, some Protestant denominations, such as Scotland’s austere Kirk, high-mindedly “declared all of Christmas a nasty popish invention and banned the holidays entirely.”

From Washington Post

Then he was "atheistical, popish, heathenish, tyrannical, bloodthirsty;" now the country turned to him as a true patriot, the staunch upholder of the Anglican Church, the defender of the rights of Parliament.

From Project Gutenberg

The lover of the “popish clergywoman” is simply perfect, with a not much less good heart and a much better head than his master’s, and in his own degree hardly less of a gentleman.

From Project Gutenberg

“Unmasking of all popish priests,” &c., and “Speculum Jesuiticum,” which abound in details to their disadvantage. 

From Project Gutenberg

Though for my part, had I my way, the popish chit should be whipped!'

From Project Gutenberg