Papacy is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PAPACY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the office of the pope
• the office or authority of the Pope
• the tenure of office of a pope
• position or term of office of a pope
• The office and dignity of the pope, or pontiff, of Rome; papal jurisdiction.
• The popes, collectively; the succession of popes.
• The Roman Catholic religion; -- commonly used by the opponents of the Roman Catholics in disparagement or in an opprobrious sense.
• the government of the Roman Catholic Church

Words related to PAPACY

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How to use PAPACY in a sentence

• The reformed Papacy was good fortune for believing children of the Church, but what here concerns us is that one of its chief objects was to repress freedom more effectually.
• The Papacy was not politically a great power until the time of Hildebrand, nor a rich temporal power till nearly the era of the Reformation.
• That was a later development in the history of the papacy.
• The claims of the papacy were watched with the most jealous care.
• A serious schism arose between Western Christendom and the Papacy.
• For all their passionate opposition to the Reformation, the Magistrates had no idea of allowing either the kingship or France to fall beneath the yoke of the papacy.
• The French kingship and the papacy, the representatives of which had but lately been great and glorious princes, such as Philip Augustus and St.
• The return of the papacy to Rome was far from restoring the influence of the popes over the Italian Peninsula.
• The Italian press regarded it as determining a war, without truce or armistice, between the papacy and modern civilization.
• The Papacy itself at its first beginning had no other origin.
• Not less uneasy were the results of the growing encroachments of the papacy and the increasing inability of the English clergy to face them.
• It is also certain that the Papacy, which had to be respected, would have resisted an openly declared Spanish despotism.
• At the same time, the Papacy was nothing loth to help them in their undertaking.
• Sound learning died down beneath the tyranny of the Inquisition, the Index, the Council of Trent, Spain and the Papacy.
• The arts whereby Jesuits gained hold on families and individuals, inspired in him no less disgust than the illegal despotism of the Papacy.
• Human arrogance may be said to have reached its limit in the papacy.
• This, we are assured, was because he had risen in rebellion against the divine power of the papacy.
• The Papacy, through its various agencies, is in receipt of more than a million and a quarter pounds annually from the national funds.
• The patriarch of Constantinople, always jealous of the popes, eagerly upheld this doctrine which the papacy continually and consistently denounced.
• The crisis so long foreseen, so often prevented by the papacy, came at last with great suddenness.
• The papacy succeeded to the pagan form of the Roman empire.
• Then the papacy was, for the time being, overthrown.
• This would have been the end of the papacy, had this overthrow been made permanent.
• But how with those referred to above who have kept Sunday in the past, and the majority of those who are keeping it to-day? Do they keep it as an institution of the papacy? No.
• Certain it was, our hostess did not wear any cross, beads, or other outward symbol of Papacy.
• On the extinction of their house in 1024, it was succeeded by a Franconian dynasty which came into collision with the Papacy under Pope Gregory VII.
• Independent of the papacy, they were not independent of the lay rulers within whose dominions they lay.
• The papacy sought to become an international tribunal.
• This was a blow to the Church of England as irreparable as the loss of Northern Europe to the Papacy.
• In conclusion, the Commons thought it well to assert that they were separating, not from the church of Christ, but only from the papacy.
• At the period when the Papacy was at its height, and kings and emperors trembled before it in England and in Germany, the Popes had a precarious hold on their own city.

Similar words containing PAPA without suffix cy

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