papalist

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Definition of papalist

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (historical)Supporting papal authority; supporting papalism or hierocracy.
    “The Summa de potestate ecclesiastica of Augustinus was reprinted in 1582 and again during each of the next three years, and it became a standard repository of papalist arguments. The pope, Augustinus had argued, has immediate power of jurisdiction over temporal as well as spiritual things […]”
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adj

  1. (historical)Supporting papal authority; supporting papalism or hierocracy.
    “The Summa de potestate ecclesiastica of Augustinus was reprinted in 1582 and again during each of the next three years, and it became a standard repository of papalist arguments. The pope, Augustinus had argued, has immediate power of jurisdiction over temporal as well as spiritual things […]”

noun

  1. (historical)A supporter of papal authority; (Middle Ages) a hierocrat.
  2. (derogatory, rare)A papist (Roman Catholic).

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Etymology

From papal + -ist.

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