popery in English

noun
1
the doctrines, practices, and ceremonies associated with the pope or the papal system; Roman Catholicism.
Beyond its original designation of Roman Catholic dogma and doctrine, by the 1670s popery was also used to label other characteristics, such as arbitrary rule, radical motives, as well as Anglican liturgy and church government.
noun
    papism

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1. "TO DESTROY POPERY AND EVERYTHING Appertinent THERETO" 55.

2. 1664-1667, Jeremy Taylor, Dissuasive from Popery Antepasts of joy and comforts 1782, John Wesley, Hymn to the Holy Ghost this antepast of heaven

3. “To Destroy Popery and Everything Appertinent Thereto”: William Chaney, the Jesuit John Bapst, and the Know-Nothings in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Maine; David Dzurec; Volume 103, Number 1, …

4. Bugbeared with popery and power despotic, Tyrannic government, and leagues exotic: The revolution's a fanatic plot, William a tyrant, Sunderland a sot: A factious army and a poisoned nation, Unjustly forced King James's abdication

5. Bugbeared with Popery and power despotic, Tyrannic government and leagues exotic: The Revolution’s a fanatic plot, William a tyrant, Sunderland a sot: A factious army and a poisoned nation: Unjustly forced King James’s abdication

6. Bugbeared with Popery and power despotic, Tyrannic goverment and leagues exotic: The Revolution's a fanatic plot, William a tyrant, Sunderland a sot: A factious army and a poisoned nation Unjustly forced King James's abdication