Definition of ultramontane:

part of speech: adjective

Being beyond the mountains- namely, the Alps- meaning their south side when used by the nations north of them; belonging to the Italian or extreme party in the Ch. of Rome; foreign.

Usage examples:

• With respect to the new States, were the question to stand simply in this form, How may the ultramontane territory be disposed of, so as to produce the greatest and most immediate benefit to the inhabitants of the maritime States of the Union? Thomas Jefferson in "Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson".

• Under the Ultramontane leadership of Cardinal Cullen the Catholic clergy adopted a similar attitude. Robert Mitchell Henry in "The Evolution of Sinn Fein".

• Is it not considered rather the correct thing to be 'High' in views, and even to manifest an Ultramontane tendency? Richard Jefferies in "Hodge and His Masters".

• Only a genius of the greatest power could have grasped and moulded into palpitating life beings of the calibre of the brilliant complex and illogical Aristophanes, or the dunderheaded, well meaning and equally illogical Miranda and set them to act out their little parts in a living historical environment- one in decadent Athens with her petty political and literary rivalries and dying religion; the other in ultramontane France where superstition and materialism were fighting for the mastery. Hermann Sudermann in "The Three Heron's Feathers".