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Definition of Poperies
1. popery [n] - See also: popery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Poperies
Literary usage of Poperies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tait's Edinburgh Magazine by William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone (1851)
"It is a company of little poperies, not yet come to growth, making furious noise
at one great popery, which haply has arrived at too great growth—has over- ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1857)
"... and who therefore excommunicate us and cause the whole structure of social
and religious life to be split up into ten thousand little poperies. ..."
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