pontificality

English

Etymology

From pontifical +‎ -ity.

Noun

pontificality (plural pontificalities)

1. The state and government of the pope; the papacy.
   • c. 1614, Francis Bacon, The Charge Against William Talbot:

     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 […]

References

• “pontificality”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.