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pontificalities

pontificalities is the plural of pontificality.

Meaning of pontificality

Noun

pontificality (plural pontificalities)

  1. The state and government of the pope; the papacy.
    • Charles the fifth , emperor , who was accounted one of the Pope's best sons , yet proceeded in matter temporal towards Pope Clement with strange rigour : never regarding the pontificality , but kept him prisoner thirteen months[…]c. 1614, Francis Bacon, The Charge Against William Talbot

Questions about pontificalities

What is pontificalities the plural of?
Pontificalities is the plural of pontificality.

Words near pontificalities in the dictionary

  1. pontiffs
  2. pontific
  3. pontifical
  4. Pontifical States
  5. pontificalia
  6. pontificalities
  7. pontificality
  8. pontifically
  9. pontificals
  10. pontificate
  11. pontificated

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