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Ultramontane

adjective

Of or relating to ultramontanism.

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"

On the Italian or Roman side of the Alps. Synonym: cisalpine.

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"Ultramontane" Quotes from Famous Books

... allegiance to the Pope. Their mission had been not less to quell all mutiny within the Church than to repel the hostility of her avowed enemies. Their doctrine was in the highest degree what has been called on our side of the Alps Ultramontane, and differed almost as much from the doctrine of Bossuet as from that of Luther. They condemned the Gallican liberties, the claim of oecumenical councils to control the Holy See, and the claim of Bishops to an independent commission from heaven. Lainez, in the name of the whole fraternity, ...

— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 2 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... special obligations; that I address myself particularly to you. But I, who am not frightened of many things, have always been frightened of editors. I am filled with awe when I think of the ultramarine pencil that is to delete my ultramontane views. You were, as I have hinted, the first to abrogate its use in my favour. When you, if not Consul, were at least Plancus, I think the only thing you ever rejected of mine was an essay entitled 'Editors, their Cause and Cure.' It is not included, for obvious reasons, ...

— Masques & Phases • Robert Ross

... very different things in different mouths. Is every person a Papist who is willing to concede to the Bishop of Rome a primacy among Christian prelates? If so, James the First, Charles the First, Laud, Heylyn, were Papists, [522] Or is the appellation to be confined to persons who hold the ultramontane doctrines touching the authority of the Holy See? If so, neither Bossuet nor Pascal ...

— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 3 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay

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