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popish

noun as in pope

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At this time the authorities were enforcing the payment of tithe; and this excited the wrath of the leaders of the Popish party.

Then, there are no private houses, as in England; families live in staircases; see what it is to belong to a Popish country.

In the fourth, they provide banishment, and death in case of return, for Jesuits and Popish priests of every denomination.

This account was related by a popish spy, in a letter written here in England to Mendea.

But notwithstanding this, soon afterwards, the Romish clergy erected a new popish university in the city of Dublin.

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On this page you'll find 16 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to popish, such as: pontiff, legate, nuncio, otho, papacy, and pontifical.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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