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
- She was a faithful churchwoman who in her time would have been an ultramontane - conservative triple distilled. MOONDROP TO MURDER
- 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
- 1443 Antonio appointed two vicars-general to direct the Observants -- for the cismontane family (i.e. for Italy, the East, Austria-Hungary, and Poland) St. John Capistran, and for the ultramontane (all other countries, including afterwards America) jean Perioche of Maubert. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
- You know what the categories are - ultramontane, gallican, liberal, integriste, laicite, anticlerical, etc. - they were virtually invented here, and they never change.
