Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The papacy; the papal office or authority; the Church of Rome. Also papality.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete The papacy.

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  • noun obsolete The papacy.

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Examples

  • When the procession was done he would have gone privily out of Rome, for to eschew the office of the papalty, but against that the gates were kept so that he might not issue.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 3 1230-1298 1900

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