Borrowed fromMiddle Frenchultramontain, fromLate Latinultramontanus.
ultramontane (comparativemoreultramontane,superlativemostultramontane)
- (theology)Promoting thesupremacy of thePope.
1730,[1728],Jacques L'enfant, translated by Stephen Whatley,The History of the Council of Constance, volume 1,page ix:'Tis no wonder that a Council which had declar'd itſelf ſuperior to the Popes, which had undertaken to try, and even to depoſe them, and had given ſuch great Blows to the Privileges, and to the Authority of the Cardinals, was not relith'd by the Court ofRome, nor approv'd of by the Popes or tlieir Divines, nor by theUltramontane Canonists.
- 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 becomingultramontane that I won over public opinion in Italy.
- From the other side of amountain range, particularly theAlps.
1905,David George Hogarth,The Penetration of Arabia: a Record of the Development of Western Knowledge Concerning the Arabian Peninsula, Alston Rivers,page231:A march of about forty miles from Sohar up wadys, with intermittent water in their beds, brought his party to the frontier of the Batina, and by a low pass (i860 feet) it crossed the dividing ridge into theultramontane province, Dahira.
respecting the supremacy of the Pope
from the other side of the mountains
ultramontane (pluralultramontanes)
- Someone who holds to thesupremacy of thePope over the secular and ecclesiastical worlds
someone who acknowledges the supremacy of the Pope
ultramontane
- inflection ofultramontan:
- strong/mixednominative/accusativefemininesingular
- strongnominative/accusativeplural
- weaknominative all-gendersingular
- weakaccusativefeminine/neutersingular
ultramontane f pl
- feminineplural ofultramontano
Ultramontanism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Ultramontanism in theEncyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)