curialism

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

curial +‎ -ism

Noun[edit]

curialism (uncountable)

  1. (derogatory) The view or doctrine of the ultramontane party in the Latin Church.
    • 1875, William Ewart Gladstone, Vaticanism: an Answer to Reproofs and Replies:
      is it not an astonishing fact , with reference to the spirit of Curialism, that down to the year 1870 these preposterous claims of aggression should have been upheld

References[edit]

curialism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.