Online dictionaryOnline dictionary
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Ultramontane   Listen
Ultramontane

adjective
1.
Of or relating to ultramontanism.
2.
On or relating to or characteristic of the region or peoples beyond the Alps from Italy (or north of the Alps).  Synonym: transalpine.  "Cracow was a transalpine university"
3.
On the Italian or Roman side of the Alps.  Synonym: cisalpine.





WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |
Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar




"Ultramontane" Quotes from Famous Books



... own feet. The vain talk about Napoleon's intervening militarily on behalf of the Grand Duke has simply been the consequence of statements without foundation in the English and German papers; and also in some French Ultramontane papers. Napoleon with his own lips, after the peace, assured our delegates that no force should be used. And he has repeated this on every possible occasion. At Villafranca, when the Emperor of Austria insisted ...
— The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II • Elizabeth Barrett Browning


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


Copyright © 2024 Dictionary One.com