Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
cardinalate .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The condition, dignity, of office of a cardinal.
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- noun The office (or term of office) of a
cardinal
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- noun the office of cardinal
Etymologies
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Examples
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His canons and grand-vicars were good old men, rather vulgar like himself, walled up like him in this diocese, without exit to a cardinalship, and who resembled their bishop, with this difference, that they were finished and he was completed.
Les Miserables 2008
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It was in 1961, and Croetine's uncle-my great-uncle-had been appointed to a cardinalship and was then stationed at the Vatican.
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000
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It was in 1961, and Croetine's uncle-my great-uncle-had been appointed to a cardinalship and was then stationed at the Vatican.
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000
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I excused myself by saying that I had taken a resolution never to accept of the cardinalship by any means which seemed to have relation to the civil wars, to the end that I might convince the Queen that it was the most rigid necessity which had separated me from her service.
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He wished to arrive at the cardinalship, and to further his views he thought it advisable to ingratiate himself into the favour of Monsieur de Bourgogne.
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Cambrai might rely upon advancement to a cardinalship, and steps were taken, but without any good result, to bring about that event.
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"Gentlemen, I think you will thank me for giving you an associate like M. d'Orleans, to whom I give my nomination to the cardinalship."
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Regent, and still looked forward to a cardinalship as the reward of his scheming, his baseness, and his perfidy.
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Cardinal to secure the advancement of the Abbe d'Auvergne, that he had already made a daring and fraudulent attempt to procure for him a cardinalship.
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His archbishopric and his nomination to the cardinalship required more discussion.
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November 25, 2010