Definition of "Romanism"

Romanism once extinguished, all other Sects will follow, and that the Catholic Religion—falsely so called—for Catholick means universal—is going, none now will venture to deny.

1790 August 1, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana

Then I saw how a spot no larger than this could be crowded with millions of souls, and yet be apparently uninhabited. Romanism increases the degradation of tenantism, and rum completes it.

1866, Gilbert Haven, The Pilgrim's Wallet, page 8

It appears then that Warfield himself really suggests a better way of expressing such differences as obtain between Romanism and Protestantism, or between universalistic and particularistic Protestantism than he has himself employed.

1967 December 1, Cornelius Van Til, The Defense of the Faith‎, 3rd edition, Presbyterian and Reformed Pub. Co., page 71