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ultramontane

adj

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French ultramontain, from Late Latin ultramontanus.

  1. derived from ultramontanus
  2. borrowed from ultramontain

Definitions

  1. Promoting the supremacy of the Pope.

    • It was by becoming a Catholic that I pacified the Vendee, and a Mussulman that I established myself in Egypt; it was by becoming ultramontane that I won over public opinion in Italy.
    • My friend, a Scottish newspaper chief, has spent half a lifetime gliding across some of Fleet Street's more ultramontane and unreasonable titles.

  2. From the other side of a mountain range, particularly the Alps.

    • He was slenderly provided with means for his ultramontane journey; and he resolved to save all he could in Italy, that he might not be restricted when among foreigners.
    • A march of about forty miles from Sohar up wadys, with intermittent water in their beds, brought his party to the frontier of the Batina, and by a low pass (i860 feet) it crossed the dividing ridge into the ultramontane province, Dahira.

  3. Someone who holds to the supremacy of the Pope over the secular and ecclesiastical worlds

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