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Definition of Indefectibility
1. n. The quality of being indefectible.
Definition of Indefectibility
1. Noun. The quality of being indefectible. ¹
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Definition of Indefectibility
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Indefectibility
Literary usage of Indefectibility
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Peter's Name: Or, A Divine Credential in a Name by Telesphor Smyth-Vaudry (1909)
"Christ proclaims the indefectibility of His Church —ie, the absolute ... 18);
and the reason He assigns for her indefectibility and indestructibility is ..."
2. A Letter to the Right Rev. Father in God, Richard Lord Bishop of Oxford, on by Edward Bouverie Pusey (1839)
"(3) The " indefectibility of the Church" is very different from the " Infallibility"
assumed by Borne. We believe that (although Councils, which have been ..."
3. Authority, Ecclesiastical and Biblical by Francis Joseph Hall (1908)
"The distinction should be noted between the infallibility and the indefectibility
of the Church. The former signifies the invariable truth of the Church's ..."
4. The Temporal Mission of the Holy Ghost: Or, Reason and Revelation by Henry Edward Manning (1866)
"From the same indissoluble union flow next the endowments of the Church; namely,
indefectibility in life and duration, Infallibility in teaching, ..."
5. Christian Apologetics: A Defense of the Catholic Faith by Walter Devivier, Sebastian Gebhard Messmer (1903)
"... CHURCH.1 Taken in its broadest acceptation the indefectibility of the Church
is the duration that Jesus Christ promised her until the end of the world, ..."
6. The Evidence for the Papacy: As Derived from the Holy Scriptures and from by Colin Lindsay (1870)
"I. UNITY AND indefectibility.—" Upon this Rock I will build My Church, and the
gates of hell shall not prevail against it. ..."
7. An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent by John Henry Newman (1870)
"indefectibility of Certitude. It is the characteristic of certitude that its ...
indefectibility almost enters into its very idea, enters into it at least ..."
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