popedom
Americannoun
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the office or dignity of a pope.
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the tenure of office of a pope.
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the papal government.
noun
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the office or dignity of a pope
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the tenure of office of a pope
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the dominion of a pope; papal government
Etymology
Origin of popedom
before 1150; Middle English pape dom; Old English pāpdōm. See pope, -dom
Example Sentences
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As of Thursday, for the first time in the nation’s history, the bonkers worry that there might be a pope-president is, technically, a live possibility: Pope Leo XIV, a native-born American citizen of the correct age and more than 14 years’ residency, really could—if he ever wanted to give up or split time with his “popedom”—run for president of the United States.
From Slate
An American so intrepid as to make himself eligible for both offices would be unlikely to “give up his popedom for our presidency.”
From Slate
To the ambitious it was the portal to bishoprics, and, after the monk St. Gregory, not unfrequently to the Popedom.
From Project Gutenberg
From the earliest period a long succession of Councils as well as such men as St. Boniface, St. Gregory the Great, St. Peter Damiani, St. Dunstan, St. Anselm, Hildebrand and his successors in the Popedom, denounced priestly marriage or concubinage as an atrocious crime, and the habitual life of the priests was, in theory at least, generally recognised as a life of sin.
From Project Gutenberg
At this time there was a vacancy in the popedom, and the brothers remained in Venice two years before it was filled.
From Project Gutenberg
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