¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cardinalships
1. cardinalship [n] - See also: cardinalship
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cardinalships
Literary usage of Cardinalships
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"This having been obtained through the influence of King Louis's prime minister,
Cardinal d'Amboise, procured by the promise of three cardinalships for his ..."
2. The Life and Times of Sixtus the Fifth by Joseph Alexander Hübner (1872)
"... Sixtus V. had issued an ordinance by which the offices at ' Monti' were vacant
by the promotion of the holders to bishoprics or cardinalships.1 This was ..."
3. The Renaissance: The Revival of Learning and Art in the Fourteenth and by Philip Schaff (1891)
"... dispensations, pardons, bishoprics, cardinalships, and all court dignities :
unto which matters he had appointed two or three men privy to his thought, ..."
4. Paul and Julia: Or, The Political Mysteries, Hypocrisy and Cruelty of the by John Claudius Pitrat (1855)
"... etc., and have been promoted to cardinalships through the meanest political
intrigues. " The pope, mimicking the kings and emperors, who call princes ..."
5. The English Reformation by Francis Charles Massingberd (1866)
"Urban immediately declared their cardinalships forfeited, and appointed a new
set of cardinals. War ensued. Clement's party were defeated in a pitched ..."
6. Renaissance in Italy: The Fine Arts by John Addington Symonds (1906)
"... bishoprics, cardinalships, and all court dignities: unto which matters he had
appointed two or three men privy to his thought, exceeding prudent, ..."
7. Ancient Critical Essays Upon English Poets and Poësy by Sir John Harington, George Gascoigne, William Webbe, Francis Meres, Thomas Campion, Samuel Daniel, Edmund Bolton, Edmund Spenser, Gabriel Harvey, James, Joseph Haslewood (1811)
"In Italy and Fraunce I haue knowen it vsed for common pol- licie, the Princes to
differre the bestowing of their great liberalities as cardinalships and ..."
Other Resources:
