What is "papists"

Usage examples of "papists".

It is hard to understand, in fact, how the shriveled Hearst management can still find enough gimps, bigots and deranged Papists to staff a rotten paper like the Herald.

The Bard hears the din of arms and news comes that the Turks, Papists, and Roundheads are advancing in three armies.

For the Papists encourage, yea, command men to break an oath with a heretic even though sworn on the sacraments.

Turks, the Papists and the murderous Roundheads in three armies, filling the whole plain of Darkness, committing every outrage and turning everything topsy-turvey.

Lowell was as unfriendly as the Harvard fellows toward the crowding of Irish papists along the wharfsides and in outlying suburbs of Boston.