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Definition of Popelings
1. popeling [n] - See also: popeling
Lexicographical Neighbors of Popelings
Literary usage of Popelings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Puritans: Or, The Church, Court, and Parliament of England, During the by Samuel Hopkins (1861)
"For none but Antichristian popes and popelings ever claimed this authority unto
themselves, especially when it was gainsaid and accounted Antichristian, ..."
2. Publications (1854)
"... upon a like place, is occasioned by an argument urged by Cardinal Bellarmine
and other popelings, against the protestants, on this wise. ..."
3. A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne by Adolphus William Ward (1899)
"... lashes—in addition to the ordinary whipping-posts of ' popelings' and Puritans—the
enormities of social vice and the peccadilloes of literary rivals. ..."
4. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"(NE1X) 1621 Our profest popelings, and halfe-baked Protestants.— Sanderson, '
Sermon xii.' (NED) 1636 Certaine Hermophrodite Divines, meere Centaures in ..."
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