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liceities

liceities is the plural of liceity.

Meaning of liceity

Noun

liceity (usually uncountable, plural liceities)

  1. (usually, religious) The legitimacy of an act or its consequences, by opposition to the validity.
    • Validity affects the act, while liceity affects the 'legality' of the act. So if a baptism is invalid, then the baptism never occurred (i.e. one has not been baptized and needs to be baptized). So if a baptism is illicit, then it was not celebrated under the structures that the Catholic Church has...2011, “Validity and liceity”, in Ship of Saint-Peter, archived from the original on 28 Jul 2011
    Synonyms:
    legitimacy

Questions about liceities

What is liceities the plural of?
Liceities is the plural of liceity.

Words near liceities in the dictionary

  1. lice
  2. Licea
  3. Liceas
  4. licecide
  5. licecides
  6. liceities
  7. liceity
  8. liceless
  9. liceling
  10. licelings
  11. licence

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