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Definitions for POPERY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a hostile term for Roman Catholicism
• the doctrines, practices, and ceremonies associated with the Pope or the papal system; Roman Catholicism
• derogatory word for Roman Catholicism
• The religion of the Roman Catholic Church, comprehending doctrines and practices; -- generally used in an opprobrious sense.
• offensive terms for the practices and rituals of the Roman Catholic Church

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• It was a matter of great difficulty to convince the people that popery was absurd, and at the same time to set limits to the absurdity.
• But, in the meantime, there are surely signs of the approaching ruin of Popery, more certain than any speculations on the mystic numbers of the Revelation.
• He first made his appearance as a preacher in Edinburgh, where he thundered against popery, but was imprisoned and sent to the galleys in 1546.
• And now people are raising the cry that Popery is about to overrun England.
• Besides, in Popery they thought you nursed, As evil tongues will ever speak the worst, Because some forms, and ceremonies some You kept, and stood in the main question dumb.
• However, Helen, those foolish days are gone, and we have nothing for it now but to hunt Popery out of the country.
• Such was his zeal against Papists, she said, as well as against Popery at large, that she never looked on him without thinking that there was a priest to be burned.
• They liked the lad, and found his Popery of such a mild kind that they felt no misgiving as to its influence upon the girls.
• The conjunction of popery and absolute prerogative thoroughly alarmed the Scots, and the news of the English Revolution was received with general satisfaction.
• But that the practice of committing heretics to the flame prevailed in England long after Popery ceased to be the dominant religion is notorious.
• Of True Religion, Haeresie, Schism, Toleration, and what best means may be used against the growth of Popery.
• All the speeches turned on the necessity of straining every nerve to make converts to popery.
• The extreme rage against Popery was a sure characteristic of Puritanism.
• This summons was obeyed, and the pillar of Popery, which was the habitation of a Catholic priest with a chapel attached to it, was demolished.
• As to the safety of the church of England he had no doubt, since the people of England possessed the most hostile feelings towards all the doctrines of Popery.
• Popery could not retain its glories in Ireland, or the Protestant church be destroyed, so long as their fate depended on a Protestant parliament.
• He persevered in the great zeal which he affected against Popery.
• They voted, that whoever had advised his majesty to refuse the exclusion bill, were promoters of Popery and enemies to the king and kingdom.
• Accordingly, at the close of 1846, one hundred and fifty clergymen and distinguished laymen had gone over to Popery.
• Popery has long looked to our church for the most potent soldiers.
• During his crusade against Popery he received an anonymous letter threatening that if he proceeded with his lectures on the subject of the Mass, his life would be in danger.
• Yet, amidst all this prosperity, poor Jack is hourly disturbed by the dread of Popery.
• The Whigs, as having favoured the relaxation of the laws against popery, were especially obnoxious to the mob.
• But his Protestantism and his jealousy of Popery were equally strong.
• And, therefore every reader will observe, that the arguments for Popery are much the strongest of any in his book, as I shall further remark when I find them in my way.
• These were formerly writ to advance Popery, and now to put an absurdity upon the hypothesis of a Catholic Church.
• Great numbers of controversial tracts against Popery were issued by these divines.
• Yet we, too, have trembled at the imaginary horrors of Popery.
• Proposal for Preventing the further Growth of Popery III.
• PROPOSAL FOR PREVENTING THE FURTHER GROWTH OF POPERY.
• The Episcopalian ascendancy in Ireland represented foreign interests, and therefore struck against Dissent as well as against Popery, and estranged both.
• In 1654 Puritans gained control of the Assembly, and passed an Act against Popery.
• As Shaftesbury, the leader of the opposition, stated, popery and slavery went hand in hand.
• It was at first thought necessary, perhaps, to oppose to Popery another Popery, to get the better of it.
• Brought up in the principles of Protestantism, he had in the former part of his life a great aversion to Popery.

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