[ad. F. ultramontanisme (18th c.), = Sp., Pg. ultramontanismo: see prec. and -ISM.] The principles and practice of the ultramontane party in the Church of Rome; the doctrine of absolute papal supremacy.
1827. Westm. Rev., Jan., 80. That what he calls ultramontanism may be maintained … to be an orthodox tenet of the Catholic church.
1854. Ld. Houghton, in T. W. Reid, Life (1891), I. xi. 498. Cullen’s ultramontanism is doing good in denationalising the priesthood.
1878. Dowden, Stud. Lit., 323. Ultramontanism in its strictest form was the creed of Lamennais.
