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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   During the Irish Potato Famine, the setting up of schools by non-Roman Catholic Bible societies in which starving Catholic children were fed but were subjected to Protestant religious instruction at the same time. derogatory, historical, uncountable

Etymology

From souper + -ism.

Related phrases

roman catholic

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