popish
/ˈpoʊpɪʃ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.07 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Alternative letter-case form of popish.
Example Sentences
- "I do, therefore, much blame the petulcity of whatsoever author, that should dare to impute a Popish affection to him […]"
- "When indeed a Popish monarch may fill our throne, and the successor of St. Peter shall be the spiritual head of our Church; then shall your “esoterics,” alias “Church principles,” be in the ascendant in our Universities, and Who shall say that we may not have a Thorp lecturer in each of our Colleges, Neale and Webb scholarships, Regii professores supplying the places of those who shall now be superannuated, all teaching, and empowered to confer degrees in the, symbolism of mystical divinity:—the professor of music, not dealing as he now must, with crotchets and quavers, but in the far higher branches of the sacramentality of sounds, with their correspondent colours, instruments, bearing, &c. &c., and so of others?"
- "It was an old chapel, known to his father and his father's father. The unfrescoed walls still showed faintly the outlines of Popish statuary that had stood against them long ago, and the smoke of many candles had darkened the rafters to match the color of the lowering sky outdoors."
Etymology
Etymology tree English pope Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -isch English -ish English popish From pope + -ish.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈpoʊpɪʃ/
- British English: /ˈpəʊpɪʃ/
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Religion.
Inflected Forms
more popish (comparative)
most popish (superlative)