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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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