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Word | Ultramontane |
on or relating to or characteristic of the region or peoples beyond the Alps from Italy (or north of the Alps); ancient transalpine Gaul was an area northwest of the Alps and included modern France and Belgium; Cracow was a transalpine university / a Roman Catholic who advocates ultramontanism (supreme papal authority in matters of faith and discipline) / Being beyond the mountains / a person advocating supreme papal authority., | |
Usage | ⇒ A second and related set of tensions divided Gallicans, who insisted on the independence of the national Church, and ultramontanes , who were more respectful of papal authority. |
Synonyms | transalpine, tramontane, alien, cisalpine, canonical, clerical, ecclesiastical, foreigner, ministerial, pastoral, priestly, remote, sacerdotal, episcopal, outsider, stranger, ulterior, abbatial, antipodean, apostolic, |
Antonyms | cismontane, tramontane, transmontane, |
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