English Explanatory Dictionary

ultramontane

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Promoting the supremacy of the Pope.
  2. From the other side of a mountain range, particularly the Alps.
noun
  1. Someone who holds to the supremacy of the Pope over the secular and ecclesiastical worlds

Word forms

ultramontane more ultramontane most ultramontane ultramontanes

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French ultramontain, from Late Latin ultramontanus.

Synonyms

ultramontanist curialist popist Romist transmontane

Antonyms

cismontane

Related words

ultramontanism ultramontanist Ultramontanism in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
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