anti-Catholicadj.n.
A. adj.
Opposed to what is, or is called, catholic.
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anti-papal1639
anti-Catholic1665
1665 N. French Let. 19 Sept. in Hist. Wks. (1846) I. 136 A principal Leader in the Anti-catholick Ormonian Faction.
1823 Scott Peveril II. viii. 205 The commercial and nautical interests of England were indeed particularly anti-catholic.
B. n.
(sc. person).
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society > faith > sect > Christianity > Roman Catholicism > anti-Catholic > [noun] > person
anti-Catholic1780
no-poperist1827
1780 H. Walpole Let. 6 Feb. (1904) XI. 125 Lord George Gordon..dresses..like the first Methodists; though I take the modern ones to be no anti-Catholics.
1819 S. Parr Wks. (1828) VII. 142 The Anti-Catholics have gone to the east and west, to the north and south, for recruits.
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