Meanings of ultramontane in English

In the Franco-German War the French expected ultramontane sympathies in Germany.

On the Polish question the ultramontane would have embraced the socialist.

After Galileo came Kepler, who from his German home defied the ultramontane power.

The order was, from the first, ultramontane, in the old meaning of the term.

From its ultramontane, tyrannical, liberticidal fury, it will be thought the organ of Rome.

And the organ-notes, rolling down the arches, seemed to me to have a very ultramontane sound.

The disputed election of the bishop of Treves was also decided in favor of Arnoldi, the ultramontane candidate.

The Kulturkampf had the effect of setting a small number of ancient Prussian ultramontane families against the Government.

They do this conscientiously and not as a political trick to attract the votes of the ultramontane French.

The ultramontane journals accepted the challenge.

To the Récollets their patron was the most devout of men; to his ultramontane adversaries, he was an impious persecutor.

I, too, like yourself, was once a good party man: my party was that of the Church; I was ultramontane.

The Church first, nationality afterwards, is the creed of the ultramontane; and it is the avowed creed of the Irish people.

The pretensions of the ultramontane clergy are, indeed, remarkable enough to attract the attention of others besides the liberals of Bavaria.

The Castors were ultra-clerical and ultramontane; the Bleus inherited the tradition of Gallicanism; the Rouges imported and adapted the anti-clericalism of European Liberals.

Dr. Butler of Cashel, and his opponent, Dr. Burke of Ossory, the head of the resolute old ultramontane minority, were both recently deceased.