5 example sentences using papist.
Papist used in a sentence
Papist in a sentence as a noun
The difference is mainly up to whether it's a papist or an atheist telling you about it.
"Early American anti-papist leanings come from its British cultural heritage.
If a protestant CEO had helped strip Catholics of, say, civil recognition of Catholic marriages, then yes, I would say that Catholics could be reasonably concerned about working for him. Even if he pinkie-swore to keep his anti-papist rants entirely out of the office.
Papist in a sentence as an adjective
How could I be so careless as to marry a women without realizing that she's not only a dirty papist, but also one of those swarthy French‽However, the truth was not that I was careless, but that I didn't care.
Section 2 of the Act of Settlement 1701 explicitly bans Roman Catholics from inheriting the throne–"all and every person and persons, who shall or may take or inherit the said Crown, by virtue of the limitation of this present act, and is, are or shall be reconciled to, or shall hold communion with, the See or Church of Rome, or shall profess the popish religion, or shall marry a papist, shall be subject to such incapacities, as in such case or cases are by the said recited act provided, enacted, and established".