pontificality
English
editEtymology
editpontifical + -ity
Noun
editpontificality (plural pontificalities)
- The state and government of the pope; the papacy.
- c. 1614, Francis Bacon, The Charge Against William Talbot:
- 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 […]
References
edit- “pontificality”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.