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noun
During the Irish Potato Famine, the setting up of schools by non-Roman Catholic Bible societies in which starving Catholic children were fed but were subjected to Protestant religious instruction at the same time.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory, historical, uncountable
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History
From souper + -ism.
