Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being apostolic; profession of apostolic principles or practices.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being apostolical.
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- noun The quality of being
apostolical ;apostolicity .
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Examples
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Twenty pages on Bishop Myriel -- that rather piebald angel who makes the way impossible for any successor by his fantastic and indecent "apostolicism" in living; who tells, _not_ like St. Athanasius, an allowable equivocation to save his valuable self, but a downright lie to save a worthless rascal; and who admits defeat in argument by the stale sophisms of a moribund _conventionnel_ -- might have been tolerable.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
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There is no need at this time of day to remind ourselves of teachers who have fallen into the fatal springe of apostolicism.
Thyrza George Gissing 1880
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