Ultramontane
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Ultramontane is an adjective meaning (theology) Promoting the supremacy of the Pope.
Meaning
(theology) Promoting the supremacy of the Pope.
More Meanings
- From the other side of a mountain range, particularly the Alps.
- Someone who holds to the supremacy of the Pope over the secular and ecclesiastical worlds
Example Sentences
My friend, a Scottish newspaper chief, has spent half a lifetime gliding across some of Fleet Street's more ultramontane and unreasonable titles.
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.
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.
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.
Word Forms
- ultramontanes
Synonyms for ultramontane
Depending on context, synonyms include ultramontanist, curialist, popist, transmontane, tramontane, cismontane.
Antonyms for ultramontane
Common opposites include cismontane.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cisalpine, transalpine, cismontane, transmontane, tramontane, curialistic.
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