pontificality
English
Etymology
pontifical + -ity
Noun
pontificality (plural pontificalities)
- The state and government of the pope; the papacy.
- ???? (fix this later) 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 […]
- ???? (fix this later) Francis Bacon, The Charge Against William Talbot
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for pontificality in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)