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papist

[pey-pist] Origin

pa·pist

[pey-pist] Usually Disparaging.
noun
1.
a Roman Catholic.
adjective

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Papist is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.

Origin:
1515–25; earlier papista < Neo-Latin. See pope, -ist

pa·pist·like, adjective
pa·pist·ly, adverb
an·ti·pa·pist, noun, adjective
non·pa·pist, noun
pro·pa·pist, noun, adjective
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papist (ˈpeɪpɪst)
 
n, —adj
derogatory usually another term for Roman Catholic
 
[C16: from French papiste, from Church Latin pāpapope1]
 
pa'pistical
 
adj
 
pa'pistic
 
adj
 
'papistry
 
n

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papist
1534, "adherent of the Pope," from M.Fr. papiste, from papa "Pope," from Church L. papa (see pope).
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