Pontificate is valid Scrabble Word

Is pontificate a scrabble word?
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11 letters word
18 points in Scrabble
21 points in WWF

Definitions for PONTIFICATE in dictionary:

VERB:

to speak in a pompous and dogmatic manner
(in the Roman Catholic Church) officiate as bishop, especially at Mass
To perform the duty of a pontiff.
administer a pontifical office
talk in a dogmatic and pompous manner
express one's opinions in a pompous and dogmatic way

NOUN:

(in the Roman Catholic Church) the office or period of office of a pope or bishop
The state or dignity of a high priest; specifically, the office of the pope.
The term of office of a pontiff.
the government of the Roman Catholic Church

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

the state, office, or term of office of a pontiff

Words related to PONTIFICATE

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Words that contain PONTIFICATE

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How to use PONTIFICATE in a sentence

Sylvester was deposed from his pontificate and condemned to penance in a monastery.
The oath taken by Robert Guiscard on this occasion bound him to be the devoted defender of the pontificate.
It was at this crisis that the pontificate of Leo began, in the year 440.
This was in 1540, six years after the foundation of the Society of Jesus had been laid on the Mount of Martyrs, in the vicinity of Paris, during the pontificate of Paul III.
The History of Latin Christianity, including that of the Popes to the Pontificate of Nicolas V.
History of Latin Christianity, including that of the Popes to the Pontificate of Nicolas V.
But, when he arrived at the pontificate, he took it down, saying, that there was no need of the net, when he had caught the fish.
For the Roman Pontificate, to use the famous saying of Hobbes, was but the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.
He refused to visit Italy, received the papal crown at Lyons, and spent the first years of his pontificate in Poitou and Gascony.
They had their opportunity during the pontificate of Paul III.

That transition which I have been describing in the present chapter remained uncertain in its issue up to his pontificate.
These changes began to manifest themselves during the pontificate of Pius IV.
He was formerly the high priest, and had in reality preserved amidst the numerous changes of the pontificate all the authority of the office.
Cardinal Marcel Cervin, who preserved his name when elected pope, died on the twentieth day of his pontificate, and this confirmed this superstitious opinion.
He said this at the beginning of his Pontificate to Michael Angelo himself in the presence of many.
The pontificate of Leo is an epoch in the history of Christianity.
It was rather the pressure of his surroundings than his personal character that gave his pontificate a spiritual aspect.
The restoration of the pontificate to Rome in 1375 was shortly followed by the Great Schism.
Ignatius Loyola, and a history of the pontificate of Gregory XIII, the latter of which was never published.
The contest over the pontificate still rankled in his breast.

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