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pontificality

noun

Etymology

From pontifical + -ity.

  1. learned borrowing from pontificālis
  2. suffixed as pontificality — “pontifical + ity”

Definitions

  1. The state and government of the pope

    The state and government of the pope; the papacy.

    • Charles the fifth , emperor , who was accounted one of the Pope's best sons , yet proceeded in matter temporal towards Pope Clement with strange rigour : never regarding the pontificality , but kept him prisoner thirteen months[…]

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