Lexicographical Neighbors of Popeship
Literary usage of Popeship
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of American Folk-lore by American Folklore Society (1920)
"... a harrowing feature of Barnabe Barnes's "Devil's Charter " (1607), ' where
Alexander Borgia, by the usual exchange, obtains from the Devil the popeship. ..."
2. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"... your popeship, and lay it in the dust, for ye have been the wolves, ye have
been a wilderness, and as wolves ravening up and ..."
3. The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1810)
"... forsooth, the head of the church, by my example, under whose womanish popeship,
at least a thousand suffered death for being priests. ..."
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