ultramontane

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Middle French ultramontain, from Late Latin ultramontanus. === Adjective === ultramontane (comparative more ultramontane, superlative most ultramontane) (theology) Promoting the supremacy of the Pope. Synonyms: ultramontanist, curialist, popist, Romist 1910 [August 13, 1800], Napoleon Bonaparte, The Corsican: a Diary of Napoleon's Life in his Own Words, trans. Robert Matteson Johnston, Houghton Mifflin, pg. 144-145: It was by becoming a Catholic that I pacified the Vendee, and a Mussulman that I established myself in Egypt; it was by becoming ultramontane that I won over public opinion in Italy. From the other side of a mountain range, particularly the Alps. Synonym: transmontane Antonym: cismontane ==== Related terms ==== ultramontanism ultramontanist ==== Translations ==== === Noun === ultramontane (plural ultramontanes) Someone who holds to the supremacy of the Pope over the secular and ecclesiastical worlds ==== Translations ==== === See also === Ultramontanism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Ultramontanism in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911) == German == === Pronunciation === === Adjective === ultramontane inflection of ultramontan: strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular strong nominative/accusative plural weak nominative all-gender singular weak accusative feminine/neuter singular == Italian == === Adjective === ultramontane f pl feminine plural of ultramontano