papalty
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]papalty (plural papalties)
- (obsolete) The papacy.
- 1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavvses that hitherto have Hindred it; republished as Will Taliaferro Hale, editor, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England (Yale Studies in English; LIV), New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1916, →OCLC:
- soothe him up in his dream of a fifth monarchy , and withal to uphold the decrepit papalty
References
[edit]- “papalty”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.