Papists is an English word. Below you'll find 4 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Papists meaning
plural of papist
Using Papists
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of papist
Context around Papists
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 1 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Papists
- In this selection, "papists" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 28.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, leading and christian stand out and add context to how "papists" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include anti christian papists might achieve and awarded to papists. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "papists" sits close to words such as aaai, aani and aarne, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with papists
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Leading papists, rather than causing trouble as anticipated, reacted to the news by offering their enthusiastic support for the new monarch. (21 words)
Ussher was a convinced Calvinist and viewed with dismay the possibility that people he regarded as anti-Christian papists might achieve any sort of power. (25 words)
In the open air in Dublin, Ireland (1757), Whitefield attacked Roman Catholicism that incited an attack by “hundreds and hundreds of papists” who cursed and wounded him severely and smashed his portable pulpit. (33 words)
The land grant was presented to him by Governor William Tryon () and it can just as easily be taken away – especially because Jamie is Catholic, and grants were not supposed to be awarded to papists. (35 words)
In the open air in Dublin, Ireland (1757), Whitefield attacked Roman Catholicism that incited an attack by “hundreds and hundreds of papists” who cursed and wounded him severely and smashed his portable pulpit. (33 words)
Ussher was a convinced Calvinist and viewed with dismay the possibility that people he regarded as anti-Christian papists might achieve any sort of power. (25 words)
Example sentences (4)
The land grant was presented to him by Governor William Tryon () and it can just as easily be taken away – especially because Jamie is Catholic, and grants were not supposed to be awarded to papists.
In the open air in Dublin, Ireland (1757), Whitefield attacked Roman Catholicism that incited an attack by “hundreds and hundreds of papists” who cursed and wounded him severely and smashed his portable pulpit.
Leading papists, rather than causing trouble as anticipated, reacted to the news by offering their enthusiastic support for the new monarch.
Ussher was a convinced Calvinist and viewed with dismay the possibility that people he regarded as anti-Christian papists might achieve any sort of power.