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ultramontane
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ultramontane
1. on the other side of the mountains, esp the Alps, from the speaker or writer
2. of or relating to a movement in the Roman Catholic Church which favours the centralized authority and influence of the pope as opposed to local independence
3. a resident or native from beyond the mountains, esp the Alps
4. a member of the ultramontane party of the Roman Catholic Church


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The struggle against the Ultramontanes was the most prominent factor at that period, but there were also other matters which preoccupied the south German liberals, like the demand for far-reaching reforms in schools and in the administrative bureaucracy, together with a demand for equal opportunities for every man, whatever his status or origin, to realize his abilities in the economy and in social life.
Or, to use his favourite code word to mean the same thing: ultramontanes, his put-down of mid-19th-century Ontario parents who worried about what they saw as modernist tendencies at the then recently founded St.
Grainne, who married Pat Thorpe of Irish band The Ultramontanes in New York last year, said she was relieved the case had come to a close.
 
 
 
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