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tramontane

ADJECTIVE
  1. being or coming from another country
    tramontane influences
  2. on or coming from the other side of the mountains (from the speaker)
    the transmontane section of the state
    tramontane winds
NOUN
  1. a cold dry wind that blows south out of the mountains into Italy and the western Mediterranean

How To Use tramontane In A Sentence

  • Inconsistencies and nonparallelisms abound: cisatlantic is in but not cisalpine; tramontane but not cismontane; poikilothermal but not homoiothermal. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol 1 No 2
  • She was a faithful churchwoman who in her time would have been an ultramontane - conservative triple distilled. MOONDROP TO MURDER
  • The weather is fine over the entire Mediterranean coast, but the tramontane is blowing over the coast of Languedoc.
  • The mid-nineteenth century witnessed a ‘Catholic revival’ in Europe, with both ultramontane and liberal wings.
  • Henry Manning, who progressed from convert to ultramontane cardinal, encouraged Pius IX to consolidate authority and claim infallibility when pronouncing ex cathedra.
  • She was a faithful churchwoman who in her time would have been an ultramontane - conservative triple distilled. MOONDROP TO MURDER
  • Even the terrible wounds inflicted after 1789 were beneficial in the long run, for the Church that emerged was much more populist, much more ultramontane, and generally better equipped to survive in a more pluralist world.
  • Manifestly, it was going to be anathema to an ultramontane like him, who had seen over the previous five years the government install what he saw as a deplorable new godless and materialist proletarian state.
  • For example in Brazil, the religious question in the 1870s centered on the Masonic controversy and the struggle between regalist and ultramontane forces. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • Jansenist, mainly out of political hatred of the Jesuits, partly from a hostility, very easily explained, to every manifestation of ultramontane feeling and influence, partly from a professional jealousy of the clergy, but partly also because the austere predestinarian dogma, and the metaphysical theology which brought it into supreme prominence, seem often to have had an unexplained affinity for serious minds trained in legal ideas and their application. Voltaire
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