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The beliefs and practices of the Catholic Church based in Rome
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romanism
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Romanism is a term used by art historians to refer to painters from the Low Countries who had travelled in the 16th century to Rome. In Rome they had absorbed the influence of leading Italian artists of the period such as Michelangelo and Raphael and his ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Romanism \Ro"man*ism\, n. The tenets of the Church of Rome; the Roman Catholic religion.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"Roman Catholicism" (usually, if not always, with a disparaging savor; in some contexts suggesting political allegiance to the Vatican), 1670s, from Roman + -ism .
Usage examples of romanism.
Duke William of Cleves-Juelich-Berg had adopted an Erasmian compromise between Lutheranism and Romanism, in some respects resembling the course pursued by Henry.
I and my neighbors have been bred in the notion, that, unless we came soon to some good church, -- Calvinism, or Behmenism, or Romanism, or Mormonism, -- there would be a universal thaw and dissolution.