curialism

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English

Etymology

From curial +‎ -ism.

Noun

curialism (uncountable)

  1. (derogatory) The view or doctrine of the ultramontane party in the Latin Church.
    • 1875, William Ewart Gladstone, Vaticanism: an Answer to Reproofs and Replies:
      is it not an astonishing fact , with reference to the spirit of Curialism, that down to the year 1870 these preposterous claims of aggression should have been upheld

References

curialism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.