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papacy

/ˈpeɪ.pə.si/

papacy noun: the office of a pope.

Noun

papacy (countable and uncountable, plural papacies)

  1. The office of a pope.
    1. (usually) The office of the pope of Rome, who is the head of the Roman Catholic Church.
      • The Vatican defends the primacy of the papacy.
  2. The period of a particular pope's reign.
    • The papacy of John Paul II ended in 2005, after the pope's long battle with illness ended.
  3. (derogatory, often) Roman Catholicism generally: synonym of popery.

papacy meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Telugu and Malayalam

papacy in Urdu

پاپیسی

papacy in Bengali

পোপের পদ

papacy in Telugu

పాపసీ, పపాసీ, పాపాసీ

papacy in Malayalam

മാർപാപ്പയുടെ ഓഫീസ്, പോപ്പധികാരം, പാപ്പാവർഗ്ഗം, പോപ്പിൻറെ സ്ഥാനം
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papacy in Kannada
ಪೋಪ್ ಪ್ರಭುತ್ವ, ಪೋಪ್‌ದಾರಿಕೆ, ಪೋಪ್‍ ಪದ್ಧತಿ, ಪೋಪ್‍ನ ಅಧಿಕಾರ ಪದ್ಧತಿ
papacy in Nepali
पपासी, पोपासी, पापासी

Examples of papacy in a sentence

  • The papacy has for centuries brought with it a place on the world stage.
  • As well as overhauling the administration in the collectories, the papacy attempted to reorganise them throughout Christendom.
  • The corollary to this principle of Petrinity is that any entity that threatens or denies the papacy its primacy is anathema.

All 13 example sentences with papacy

Forms of papacy

pluralpapacies

Origin of papacy

Circa 14th century, from Middle English papacie, papassie, from Medieval Latin pāpātia, from Latin pāpa (“pope”) + -tia (“office, rank”) (English -cy).

Words formed from papacy

Questions about papacy

What does papacy mean?
Papacy means the office of a pope.
What is papacy in Urdu?
Papacy in Urdu is پاپیسی. See Papacy meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is papacy?
Papacy is a noun.
How do you pronounce papacy?
Papacy is pronounced /ˈpeɪ.pə.si/.
What is the plural of papacy?
The plural of papacy is papacies.

Words near papacy in the dictionary

  1. papabotte
  2. papabottes
  3. papacide
  4. papacides
  5. papacies
  6. papacy
  7. papad
  8. Papadakis
  9. Papadakises
  10. papadam
  11. papadams

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: papacy (page history and authors); papacy (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); papacy (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); papacy (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); papacy (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); papacy (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); papacy (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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