Antipapacy
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 antipapism; the office or reign of an antipope uncountable
"And as for the perſecution of the Empreſſe which happened long before, and for an other cauſe, to witt, foraſmuch as Vigilius after his predeceſſor Siluerius was dead, and that he was become true Pope, would not keepe the promiſe that he had made, and ſecretlie accomplisht to her during his Antipapacy, to admitt Anthymus and the other Eutychians into his communion."
Example
More examples"And as for the perſecution of the Empreſſe which happened long before, and for an other cauſe, to witt, foraſmuch as Vigilius after his predeceſſor Siluerius was dead, and that he was become true Pope, would not keepe the promiſe that he had made, and ſecretlie accomplisht to her during his Antipapacy, to admitt Anthymus and the other Eutychians into his communion."
Etymology
From anti- + papacy.
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