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Definition of Popeless
1. pope [adj] - See also: pope
Lexicographical Neighbors of Popeless
Literary usage of Popeless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1922)
"His mission found the Western world popeless, and engaged in one of those disputes
about the succession that are so frequent in the history of the papacy. ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"He had the courage to preside over the first popeless session (Mar. 26, 1415),
and to carry out the order of business of that important gathering. ..."
3. Pedagogical Articles: Linen-measurer by Leo Tolstoy, Leo Wiener (1904)
"... our Popish dissenters in their own, our popeless dissenters in their own, the
Mormons in their own, the Milkers in their own, and the Orthodox, ..."
4. A History of Scotland from the Roman Occupation by Andrew Lang (1902)
"He might become a Catholic after the manner of Henry VIII., and enforce a popeless
Catholicism. The Articles of Perth seem very trifling matters to us: to ..."
5. Church History by Johann Heinrich Kurtz (1894)
"... could with difficulty keep the now popeless council together. John, however,
was captured, seventy-two serious charges formulated against him, ..."
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