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• catholicity
  catholicity

  noun

  broad-mindedness or liberality, as of tastes, interests, or views.
• Catholicity
  Catholicity

  noun

  the beliefs, etc, of the Catholic Church

catholicity

American  

[kath-uh-lis-i-tee] / ˌkæθ əˈlɪs ɪ ti /

noun

1. broad-mindedness or liberality, as of tastes, interests, or views.

2. universality; general inclusiveness.

3. (initial capital letter) the Roman Catholic Church, or its doctrines and usages.

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catholicity ¹ British  

/ ˌkæθəˈlɪsɪtɪ /

noun

1. a wide range of interests, tastes, etc; liberality

2. universality; comprehensiveness

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Catholicity ² British  

/ ˌkæθəˈlɪsɪtɪ /

noun

1. the beliefs, etc, of the Catholic Church

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Other Word Forms

• noncatholicity
  noun
• uncatholicity
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of catholicity

First recorded in 1820–30; catholic + -ity

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Example Sentences

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catholicity Catholicity

For visitors returning after five months, the catholicity of these galleries will be a treat.

From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2020

When some people rave about “Hamilton” as a “hip-hop musical,” they’re applauding the expansion of their taste — of their artistic tolerance — and obscuring Miranda’s voracious catholicity.

From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2016

It would be hard to top the catholicity of discovery provided by this eclectic collection of scientists.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 21, 2013

She asserts her Catholicism with a most graceful catholicity.

From Time Magazine Archive

In fact, a hyenas catholicity of taste is so indiscriminate it nearly forces admiration.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

In spirit and in truth, Greek Orthodoxy is worlds apart from Roman Catholicity, as your article clearly points out.

From Time Magazine Archive

I know and gratefully acknowledge the important services rendered to Catholicity in the United States by persons of other races.

From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, November 1864 by

These facts, which are but a few of those which might be adduced, prove conclusively that Catholicity is still what she was in the middle ages—the steadfast friend and support of free institutions.

From Public School Education by Michael Müller

Moreover this unity, which we have said may be called negative, is necessary indeed to the understanding of the Church as Catholic, but is by no means sufficient to complete the idea of Catholicity.

From St. Peter, His Name and His Office As set forth in holy scripture by Thomas W. Allies

Catholicity, or Christ's Church, began with our Saviour, received her mission, her powers, and her doctrine, from Jesus Christ.

From Two Addresses One to the Gentlemen of Whitby and the other, to the Protestant Clergy by Nicholas Rigby

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