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Definition of Pontification
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pontification
Literary usage of Pontification
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annals of the Reformation and Establishment of Religion, and Other Various by John Strype (1824)
"But Christ's pontification is celestial, without succession in this world; and
not passable ever to any other person in earth. For that Christ is pontifex ..."
2. The Politics of Trade and Industrial Policy in Africa[: Forced Consensus? by Charles Chukwuma Soludo, Michael Osita Ogbu, Ha-Joon Chang (2004)
"But there is also a kind of consensus emerging that this a matter best handled
not by way of a general pontification or rigid model to be applied to each ..."
3. The Politics of Trade and Industrial Policy in Africa[: Forced Consensus? by Charles Chukwuma Soludo, Michael Osita Ogbu, Ha-Joon Chang (2004)
"But there is also a kind of consensus emerging that this a matter best handled
not by way of a general pontification or rigid model to be applied to each ..."
4. The Politics of Trade and Industrial Policy in Africa: Forced Consensus? by Charles Chukwuma Soludo, Michael Osita Ogbu, Ha-Joon Chang (2004)
"But there is also a kind of consensus emerging that this a matter best handled
not by way of a general pontification or rigid model to be applied to each ..."
5. Young Humphry Davy: The Making of an Experimental Chemist by June Z. Fullmer (2000)
"In his published paper his eagerness to sway his readers led him to a brief but
crisp pontification. "Of two phenomena, or of two series of phenomena" he ..."
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