papalist

English

Etymology

From papal +‎ -ist.

Adjective

papalist (comparative more papalist, superlative most papalist)

1. (chiefly historical) Supporting papal authority; supporting papalism or hierocracy.
   • 1968, William J. Bouwsma, Venice and the Defense of Republican Liberty: Renaissance Values in the Age of Counter Reformation, page 312:

     The Summa de potestate ecclesiastica of Augustinus was reprinted in 1582 and again during each of the next three years, and it became a standard repository of papalist arguments. The pope, Augustinus had argued, has immediate power of jurisdiction over temporal as well as spiritual things […]

Noun

papalist (plural papalists)

1. (chiefly historical) A supporter of papal authority; (Middle Ages) a hierocrat.
2. (rare, derogatory) A papist (Roman Catholic).