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anti-Catholicism

anti-Catholicism noun: fear or hatred of Catholics.

anti-catholicism: fear or hatred of Catholics
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Noun

anti-Catholicism (uncountable)

  1. Fear or hatred of Catholics.
    • The matter of anti-Catholicism in Scotland is usually guaranteed to spark fierce debate.2013 June 2, “Scotland has an issue with anti-Catholicism. That's a fact ... and we have to face it”, in The Herald
    • Progressives and conservatives are in a rare unity welcoming Pope Francis to the US, but anti-Catholicism was rampant before John F Kennedy was president.2015 September 12, Rory Carroll, “America's dark and not-very-distant history of hating Catholics”, in The Guardian

Synonyms of anti-Catholicism

Origin of anti-Catholicism

From anti- + Catholicism.

Questions about anti-Catholicism

What does anti-Catholicism mean?
Anti-Catholicism means fear or hatred of Catholics.
What part of speech is anti-Catholicism?
Anti-Catholicism is a noun.

Words near anti-Catholicism in the dictionary

  1. anti-caps
  2. anti-castration
  3. anti-Catalanism
  4. anti-catarrhal
  5. anti-catarrhals
  6. anti-Catholicism
  7. anti-centrist
  8. anti-centrists
  9. anti-charm quark
  10. anti-charm quarks
  11. anti-cheat

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