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Synonyms for popery or Related words with popery
heresies
papists
ritualism
socinianism
romish
lollards
calumnies
sectaries
puritanism
lollardy
jansenism
donatists
protestation
romanism
lollard
papism
monothelitism
antinomianism
arianism
pelagians
papist
pelagianism
calumny
confutation
tractarianism
blasphemies
clericalism
anathemas
eutyches
simony
arminianism
proselytism
nonconformists
presbyterianism
recusancy
abjuration
donatism
origenism
laud
idolatry
censures
nestorius
bloudy
jacobitism
sectarianism
socinian
galilaeans
gallicanism
conciliarism
seditious
Examples of "popery"
The word Quixotism is mentioned, for the first time, in "Pulpit
Popery
, True
Popery
" (1688):
Similar terms, such as the traditional "
popery
" and the more recent "papalism", are sometimes used, as in the
Popery
Act 1698 and the Irish
Popery
Act. The Seventh-day Adventist prophetess Ellen G. White uses the terms "papist" and "
popery
" throughout her book "The Great Controversy", a volume harshly criticized for its anti-Catholic tone.
"Five sermons against
popery
", 1772 Dublin, 1773 Cork and Dublin
The
Popery
Act 1698 (11 Will. III, c. 4) was an Act of Parliament of the Parliament of England enacted in 1700. The long title of the Act is "An Act for the further preventing the Growth of
Popery
."
Grove also translated into Latin Bishop Thomas Barlow's "
Popery
", London, 1682.
The "Report on the State of
Popery
of 1731" identifies "Atlars ut supra" in the Parish of Clontibret.
In 1729, Duckett and John Dennis together wrote anti-
Popery
booklet called "Pope Alexander's Supremacy and Infallibility Examin'd."
These tracts all went through several editions, and were collected in Edmund Gibson's "Preservative against
Popery
" (1738).
Tyrrell was working to enforce the "Act to prevent the further Growth of
Popery
", commonly known as the
Popery
Act or the Gavelkind Act, which was an Act of parliament of the Parliament of Ireland passed in 1703 and amended in 1709, one of a series of penal laws against Roman Catholics.
David Abercromby was a 17th-century Scottish physician and writer, thought to have died in 1702. Brought up at Douai as a Roman Catholic by Jesuit priests, he was converted to Protestantism in 1682 and came to abjure
popery
, and published "Protestancy proved Safer than
Popery
" (1686).
An Act to prevent the further Growth of
Popery
(commonly known as the
Popery
Act or the Gavelkind Act.) was an Act of the Parliament of Ireland passed in 1703 and amended in 1709, one of a series of Penal Laws against Roman Catholics.
While a major principle of whiggism was opposition to
popery
, that was always much more than a mere religious preference in favour of Protestantism, although most Whigs did have such a preference. Sir Henry Capel outlined the principal motivation of the cry of "no
popery
" when he said in the House of Commons on 27 April 1679:
He repeated his plea to the House of Lords a few days later, but both Houses of Parliament, entirely unmoved, duly passed the
Popery
Act.
Scottish Orange Order leaders forged informal alliances with "anti-
Popery
" Tories to oppose Catholic emancipation in 1829 and Parliamentary Reform in 1831.
Also a sermon in the ‘Morning Exercise at Cripplegate,’ 1674–6, and another in the ‘Morning Exercise against
Popery
preached in Southwark,’ 1675.
"Rocke Munday..Christmas Eve, the hoky, or seed cake, these he yeerely keepes, yet holds them no reliques of
popery
."
In its earliest days, the diocese had a decidedly low church outlook, with priests such as Richard Deodatus Poulett Harris condemning "
popery
".
Of strongly anti-Catholic and pro-Calvinist religious views, Hakewill was one of the two clergymen appointed in 1612 to preserve Prince Charles "from the inroads of
popery
."
Bryson's successor was Samuel Lyndall, trained at Rotherham Academy, and formerly a minister in Bridlington; in 1805 he published a sermon on "
Popery
".
Preservative against
Popery
(also "Preservation against
Popery
") is a name commonly given to a collection of anti-Catholic works published in 1738 by Edmund Gibson. It drew largely on the literature of the "Romish Controversy" of the 1680s, in which Church of England controversialists made a case against what they saw as a present threat from Catholicism. The original edition was in three folio volumes.