Definition of Popery. Meaning of Popery. Synonyms of Popery

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Definition of Popery

Popery
Popery Pop"er*y, n. The religion of the Roman Catholic Church, comprehending doctrines and practices; -- generally used in an opprobrious sense.

Meaning of Popery from wikipedia

- The words Popery (adjective Popish) and Papism (adjective Papist, also used to refer to an individual) are mainly historical pejorative words in the English...
- An Act to prevent the further Growth of Popery (2 Anne c. 6 (I); commonly known as the Popery Act or the Gavelkind Act) was an act of the Parliament of...
- reduce official discrimination against British Catholics enacted by the Popery Act 1698. Lord George Gordon, head of the Protestant ****ociation, argued...
- Clive D. Field, "No Popery's Ghost." Journal of Religion in Europe 7#2 (2014): 116–149. Laws in Ireland for the Suppression of Popery Archived 2008-01-03...
- Preservative against Popery (also Preservation against Popery) is a name commonly given to a collection of anti-Catholic works published in 1738 by Edmund...
- The Popery Act 1698 (11 Will. 3. c. 4) was an Act of Parliament of the Parliament of England enacted in 1700. The long title of the Act was "An Act for...
- 3 (I)) Lagan Navigation Act 1763 (3 Geo. 3. c. 6 (I)) Popery Act 1709 (8 Anne c. 3 (I)) Popery Act 1703 (2 Anne. c. 6 (I)) "Acts of Parliament by Session:...
- Morning Exercises refers to a religious observance by Puritans in London which started at the beginning of the English Civil War. As most of the citizens...
- The word quixotism is mentioned, for the first time, in Pulpit Popery, True Popery (1688): ...all the Heroical Fictions of Ecclesiastical Quixotism...
- 2012. Retrieved 8 November 2008. "Laws in Ireland for the Suppression of Popery". University of Minnesota Law School. Archived from the original on 25 January...