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Definition of Papists
1. papist [n] - See also: papist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Papists
Literary usage of Papists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress of the Christian People by William Sewel (1844)
"Some questions presented to the papists, and the Pope of Rome, ... It seems
therefore very strange to us, that the pope and papists do deny the same liberty ..."
2. The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland by Scotland Privy Council (1901)
"Certain papists in Aberdeen whose names are specified to surrender their ...
Letter from Charles anent the papists in the North (p. 35). February 26. ..."
3. Annals of the Reformation and Establishment of Religion, and Other Various by John Strype (1824)
"Anno is?4. j£any papists set at liberty upon sureties. Dr. Yang ^ the lord
treasurer to go out of the Marshalsea for hu health. ..."
4. The Bloody Bridge: And Other Papers Relating to the Insurrection of 1641 by Thomas Fitzpatrick (1903)
"And this deponent further saith, ' That the Rebellion in the said Countie of
Downe by and amongst the irish papists was so generall that few or none of the ..."
5. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England: Together with an by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1849)
"... after he had vindicated himself from the least suspicion of inclination to
popery, he confessed " he had granted commissions to many papists, ..."
6. The Church History of Britain, from the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, James Nichols (1842)
"But again the papists object, that " the most judicious protestants do ingenuously
confess that the church of Rome maintaineth all the fundamentals of ..."
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