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an⋅ti⋅pope

  [an-ti-pohp]
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–noun
a person who is elected or claims to be pope in opposition to another held to be canonically chosen.
Origin:
1570–80; anti- + pope; r. antipape < ML antipāpa, modeled on Antichrīstus Antichrist
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an·ti·pope   (ān'tĭ-pōp')   
n.  A person claiming to be or elected pope in opposition to the one chosen by church law, as during a schism.

[Middle English, from Old French antipape, from Medieval Latin antipāpa : Latin anti-, anti- + pāpa, pope; see pope.]
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antipope 
1579 (c.1236 in Anglo-L.), from M.L. antipapa.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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