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 them it is distinguishable from poperyphobia: they are not afraid of popery: popery is afraid of them.

From Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith by Beste, Henry Digby

But the romance of popery in Ireland struck his fancy; he saw nothing but a figure drooping with long travel in pursuit of privilege; a pious pilgrim, or exhausted giant.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 by Various