popery
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With so many important battles to be fought, does white magic still have a place in the world and is it even comparable to the witchery popery of 400 years ago?
From The Guardian ● Feb. 16, 2019
A fear of popery might have appealed to some Tories.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 21, 2016
And while Pope Francis may be the first actual pope to appear in a film, he'll be following a long and varied tradition of on-screen popery.
From The Verge ● Feb. 2, 2016
In the reigns of Charles II. and James II., when the dread of popery was general, the people universally observed the Fifth of November as a day of thanksgiving to God.
From Guy Fawkes or A Complete History Of The Gunpowder Treason, A.D. 1605 by Thomas Lathbury
These superstitions arose in what are called primitive times, and are certainly no part of popery, if in that word we include any especial reference to the Roman see.
From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam
