Romanism

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The English word “prince” is another Romanism, from Princeps Civitatis, “First Citizen,” the term that Augustus invented for himself.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

Once an occasion for Protestants to recall the glories of their heritage and the un-Christian follies of Romanism, Reformation Sunday is becoming an ecumenical event that looks to the future rather than the past.

From Time Magazine Archive

For the Italians' romantic love of their homeland and their nostalgia for past glories, he espoused the cult of Romanism.

From Time Magazine Archive

By and large, criticism of the third session's agenda has been in the interest of greater realism rather than Romanism, clarity rather than cliche.

From Time Magazine Archive

An experimenter in systems, a taster of speculations, he passed rapidly from one phase to another, so that his friends ascribed his steadfastness to Romanism, to the fatigue of intellectual travelling.

From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks