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Ultramontane

noun

A Roman Catholic who advocates ultramontanism (supreme papal authority in matters of faith and discipline).

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... and burnt accordingly he was, on February 16, 1600. To escape a similar fate Galileo, thirty-three years afterwards, abjured upon his knees, with his hands upon the holy Gospels, the heliocentric doctrine, which he knew to be true. After Galileo came Kepler, who from his German home defied the ultramontane power. He traced out from pre-existing observations the laws of planetary motion. Materials were thus prepared for Newton, who bound those empirical laws together ...

— Fragments of science, V. 1-2 • John Tyndall

... inexhaustible arsenal of his knowledge. They enable us to understand the animating conception which guided his life of arduous toil, and indicate the lines of a historical apologetic for the Catholic Church more just, original, and profound than any which the writers of the Ultramontane School have offered." ...

— Lectures on the French Revolution • John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

... the limbo of phantoms. The conservative liberals, therefore, while laboring for thorough internal reforms, look with little delight on the increasing strength of Prussia, and sympathize with the present liberal tendencies of Austria. Opposed to both these parties is the ultramontane, the head of which is the Romish hierarchy, and the body of which is the inert mass of ignorant peasantry, over whom the influence of the clergy seems little shaken by any of the modern moral earthquakes. Indeed I doubt if any new ideas will ever penetrate a class of peasants ...

— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner

Words linked to "Ultramontane" : ultramontanism, Roman Catholic, cisalpine, transalpine, transmontane, cismontane, tramontane