anti-Catholicism

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Etymology

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From anti- +‎ Catholicism.

Noun

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anti-Catholicism (uncountable)

  1. Fear or hatred of Catholics.
    • 2013 June 2, “Scotland has an issue with anti-Catholicism. That's a fact ... and we have to face it”, in The Herald‎[1]:
      The matter of anti-Catholicism in Scotland is usually guaranteed to spark fierce debate.
    • 2015 September 12, Rory Carroll, “America's dark and not-very-distant history of hating Catholics”, in The Guardian‎[2]:
      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.
    • 2016 March 1, Maureen Mullarkey, “Why Anti-Catholicism Will Rise”, in The Federalist‎[3]:
      Historian Arthur Schlesinger Sr. called anti-Catholicism “the deepest-held bias in the history of the American people.”

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