Papist

By Deane Barker tags: faith, catholicism, definition

Definition: a derogatory term for Catholics

The idea behind this is to refer to someone who follows the Pope (“papal”) more than God or Jesus Christ.

Why I Looked It Up

From What’s Bred in the Bone:

The religion of the School, for instance; it was a kind of middle-brow Anglicanism, not too heavily stressed because the School contained boys of all denominations, including several Jews, and some richly coloured boys from South America, who were probably Papists.

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