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Pontificality
noun
Definitions
Noun
- 1 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[…]"
Etymology
From pontifical + -ity.
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