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How to use popish in a sentence

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The Covenanters, for instance, fought to rid Scotland of what they feared were popish influences.
Because of their popish associations he also objected to the traditional episcopal vestments.
He boldly advanced the truth that believers should live by the Word of God and jettison popish superstitions.
Those accusing him in his trial, however, proved themselves comparatively ignorant of popish doctrine and appeared foolish against Latimer's defence.
Surely this can be read as Jonson's way of protesting his innocence in the whole Powder treason and the charges of seducing youth to popish religion.
Attempts in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to adopt the new calendar had broken on the rock of the Church of England, which denounced it as popish.
We shall never make any conjunction with these abominable popish idolaters, and shall, according to our national covenant, detest and abhour all their wicked, superstitious rites and ceremonies.
You just need to write down some popish names and numbers on the back of a business card or something, and rattle them off at the right moment.
It constructs a fictional scenario involving the Pudding Lane baker's family in an alleged popish plot.
Down with Christ's cross, up with purgatory pickpurse, up with him, the popish purgatory, I mean.
But the Papistes are opposite and contrarie in very many substantiall pointes of religion, and cannot but wishe the Popes authoritie and popish religion to be established.
She is condemned for a typical Popish practice, in the eyes of the Calvinist.
As Europe basked in the Enlightenment, Popish superstition and its stablemate monarchical absolutism appeared to be receding into the past.
The cellars under the Houses of Parliament continued to be leased out to private individuals until 1678, when news of the Popish Plot broke.
In May 1606, Parliament passed the Popish Recusants Act which could require any citizen to take an Oath of Allegiance denying the Pope's authority over the king.
In May 1606, Parliament passed the Popish Recusants Act, which could require any citizen to take an Oath of Allegiance denying the Pope's authority over the king.
She was a special object of attack by the inventors of the Popish Plot.
Examples from Classical Literature
She proceeded to rebuke him severely for countenancing such a popish practice as the introduction of pictures in the churches.
I nearly forgot, and indeed it is in nowise necessary, being but a popish formula.
But whence did the pedants get the popish nonsense with which they have corrupted youth?
Until after I spoke to her, she had no notion that there might be any sort of popish treachery.
There is too much popish superstition and worship of idols about him for my taste.
He told Peter that he was a popish rebel and would be hanged.
It is unnecessary to go minutely into the details of the popish Plot.
Every effort has been made to induce the Queen to accept a popish husband.
Has the reader ever seen a Popish priest in the act of making, or metamorphosing bread and water into flesh and blood?
You, a Popish bishop, tell Americans, that you cannot support a monarchist!
So much for Popish clemency and Jesuit lenity to the poor operative.
He had here no moral support for his just contempt of Popish flummery.
His advocacy of the Popish question was one of his romances.
He was summoned to the bar of the House as a Popish recusant.
It had a tirade also about the scarlet woman and Popish idolatry.
There is no longer a Popish tyrant on the throne of England, and by to-morrow noon, his name shall be a byword in this very street, where ye would make it a word of terror.
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