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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
papish

1540s; see papal + -ish.

Usage examples of "papish".

English saint, Dunstan was, not like some of those papish foreigners, and a brother craftsman to boot.

The lodge of Diamond in Armagh the splendid behung with corpses of papishes.

I know a great many papishes that are very honest sort of people, and spend their money very freely.