ADJECTIVE
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on or relating to or characteristic of the region or peoples beyond the Alps from Italy (or north of the Alps)
Cracow was a transalpine university
ancient transalpine Gaul was an area northwest of the Alps and included modern France and Belgium -
on the Italian or Roman side of the Alps
ancient cisalpine Gaul included an area south and east of the Alps - of or relating to ultramontanism
NOUN
- a Roman Catholic who advocates ultramontanism (supreme papal authority in matters of faith and discipline)
How To Use ultramontane In A Sentence
- The new immigrants and these ultramontane clerics who came to serve them overwhelmed the small, relatively Americanized Catholic Church they found here.
- As for its successor, the ultramontane Sunni Hamas, and its even more chiliastic Shia half-ally in Lebanon, Hezbollah, they do not want any accommodation or compromise, and they do not pretend to. Sesquipedalian Blatherskite
- Weigel's ultramontane effusions about John Paul II are warmly endorsed.
- The so-called ultramontanes believed that the state should serve as the secular arm of the Church and enforce its monopoly of the truth against all rival ideologies.
- 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.
- The sun fell blinding white on the snowfields, and the dancing breeze swept ice crystals down from ultramontane glaciers.
- To an old and faithful servant of the ultramontane papacy such as Ottaviani, it was all the most absolute madness.
- These opinions were in opposition to the ideas which were called ultramontane.
- Shatili is the best protected from ultramontane Khevsrian monuments.
- The promulgation of the infallibility of the Pontiff and the universality of his episcopate reinforced this ultramontane dogma at the First Vatican Council.
