Word: romish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advertisement of a book about "escaped nuns": "Convent horror . . . story of Barbara Ubrick, who for 21 years was locked in a stone dungeon 8 ft. long and 6 ft. wide because she refused to surrender her virtue to a Romish priest...
Chubby little Dean Milo Hudson Gates of Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine last month recommended to Protestants the practice of saying their prayers with a rosary. To those who find this too "Romish" he suggested the use of a knotted string. Quick to approve was the clergy of Manhattan's Episcopal Church of St. Mary the Virgin, which has long out-Romanized the Romans. Said its monthly bulletin Ave: "Good for the Dean! . . . Perhaps we shall now be able to say our beads in the Cathedral without interruption. The last time we ventured...
...Tracts and Newman's conversion stirred up resounding piety and dissension in the Church of England and in the collateral Protestant Episcopal Church of the U. S. High-Churchmen in England and Anglo-Catholics in the U. S. wanted symbolism, celibacy and other "Romish" practices in their worship. Opposed were the Low-Churchmen and the plain Episcopalians, who detested every smack of Rome...