ultramontane
IPA: ʌɫtrʌmˈɑnteɪn
noun
- Someone who holds to the supremacy of the Pope over the secular and ecclesiastical worlds
adjective
- (theology) Promoting the supremacy of the Pope.
- From the other side of a mountain range, particularly the Alps.
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Examples of "ultramontane" in Sentences
- "ultramontane" if he came not from Italy but from over the mountains.
- "ultramontane" party in the Church involved danger to the newly created
- The "ultramontane" tendency in the Church centralized more power and authority in the
- The "ultramontane" tendency in the Church centralized more power and authority in the Papacy.
- France who are not ultramontane, that is to say devoted to the interests of the Roman See. "] [Footnote 5218:" Constitutio dogmatica prima de Ecclesia Christi, "
- "Cathedra Sempiterna" rivals in fervour and excels in genuine rhetoric the passage with which de Maistre concluded his "Du Pape", which became a text for "ultramontane" apologetics.
- As was done under Bismarck, the accusation could be made against the Catholics that they are bad citizens of the state because their heart is ultramontane; it clings “over the mountains” to the pope and his authority.
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