Definition of "ultramontane" in İngilizce

adjective

1. (theology) Promoting the supremacy of the Pope.

   • It was by becoming a Catholic that I pacified the Vendee, and a Mussulman that I established myself in Egypt; it was by becoming ultramontane that I won over public opinion in Italy.

2. From the other side of a mountain range, particularly the Alps.

noun

1. Someone who holds to the supremacy of the Pope over the secular and ecclesiastical worlds