Romanism

English Etymology From en Roman ism, after en Romanist. Compare Romish. Pronunciation en en-us-Romanism.ogg US Noun - en chiefly pejorative The tenets of the Church of Rome; the Roman Catholic religion. from 17th c. en Roman Catholicism ; see there for others that are pejorative en 1 August 1790 w:Hester Thrale Piozzi Thraliana Romanism once extinguished, all other Sects will follow, and that the Catholic Religion—falsely so called—for Catholick means universal—is going, none now will venture to deny. en 1866 Gilbert Haven The Pilgrim's Wallet 8 Then I saw how a spot no larger than this could be crowded with millions of souls, and yet be apparently uninhabited. Romanism increases the degradation of tenantism, and rum completes it. en Cornelius Van Til 3rd The Defense of the Faith https://books.google.com/books?id=BrkNAQAAMAAJ Presbyterian and Reformed Pub. Co. 1967-12-01 71 It appears then that Warfield himself really suggests a better way of expressing such differences as obtain between Romanism and Protestantism, or between universalistic and particularistic Protestantism than he has himself employed. Related terms en Romanist Romaphobia#Etymology_2 en Roman Catholicism