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Definition of Papacies
1. papacy [n] - See also: papacy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Papacies
Literary usage of Papacies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Medieval History by John Bagnell Bury, James Pounder Whitney (1913)
"The first two ascribe it (at least in its final form) to the time of Stephen's
visit, the last would connect it rather with Paul; but these two papacies ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1837)
"This anti-reformation took place chiefly during the eventful papacies of Gregory
XIII. and Sixtus V. The altered position of the Pope might even have ..."
3. Greece: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm), Karl Baedeker (1894)
"... are the papacies or parish priests in the country. Every one who travels in
the interior is sure to come into more or less intimate relations with this ..."
4. The History of the Popes: From the Close of the Middle Ages. Drawn from the by Ludwig Pastor (1902)
"Gianandrea Boccaccio, writing to the Duke of Ferrara, declares that " ten papacies
would not have sufficed to provide for all these * The date of this ..."
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