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States of the Church

British  

plural noun

  1. another name for the Papal States

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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I was born in the small city of S————, in the States of the Church, not far from the Neapolitan frontier.

From Rule of the Monk or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century by Garibaldi, Giuseppe

Monzon said he thirsted for new dogmas, and the infallibility of the Pope did not satisfy him; he earnestly desired a second dogma, viz., the divine and inviolable nature of the States of the Church.

From Letters From Rome on the Council by D?llinger, Johann Joseph Ignaz von

It will be seen, when it is considered what troops this army was composed of, that it was wholly alien in the States of the Church.

From Pius IX. And His Time by Dawson, Æneas MacDonell

It is manifest that Constitutionalism, as it is ordinarily understood, is not a system which can be applied to the States of the Church.

From The History of Freedom by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron

Next came the States of the Church, sending sixty-two bishops.

From Pius IX. And His Time by Dawson, Æneas MacDonell

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