Definitions for antipope

antipope an·ti·pope

Spelling: [an-ti-pohp]
IPA: /ˈæn tɪˌpoʊp/

Antipope is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 265 anagrams from letters in antipope (aeinoppt).

Definitions for antipope

noun

  1. a person who is elected or claims to be pope in opposition to another held to be canonically chosen.

Origin of antipope

1570-80; anti- + pope; replacing antipape Medieval Latin antipāpa, modeled on Antichrīstus Antichrist

Examples for antipope

This pope was held to be an antipope; nevertheless, La Gasque was regarded as a prophetess.

Yet even now they seemed to shrink from the creation of an antipope.

The promise made by the Avignonese antipope was not binding on the Roman curia and the quarrel continued.

What a God-given opportunity to humble the antipope and bring the unfriendly kings to his feet!

With his antipope he entered it, receiving from his hands the imperial crown.

The object of this one is to elect an antipope who will be the exterminating Antichrist.

Lewis answered the pope by setting up an antipope against him.

But Boniface treated him as an antipope, and himself as the only Pope.

(antipope) being consecrated his successor by three “catascopi haud episcopi,” as Athanasius called them.

Additional energy had been infused into it by the activity of its Bulgarian antipope.

Word Value for antipope
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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