pontificality

English

Etymology

From pontifical +‎ -ity.

Noun

pontificality (plural pontificalities)

  1. 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 […]

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