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Example sentences for "popedom"

Lexicographically close words:
pootty; pooty; pop; popa; popcorn; popes; popgun; popinjay; popinjays; popishly
  1. Like Mr. Lloyd George other statesmen also at San Remo have compared Caliphate with Popedom and ignored the Koronic idea of associating spiritual power with temporal power.

  2. Speaking at the Essex Hall meeting Mr. Mahomed Ali distinguished between Popedom and Caliphate and clearly explained what Caliphate means.

  3. The empire, exercising its rights of superiority, drew the triple crown out of the mire into which it had fallen, and saved the degraded popedom by giving it decent men for heads.

  4. In 1511 the emperor took part in the Council of Pisa, and had even at one time an idea of seizing the popedom for himself.

  5. From that time Hildebrand was the soul of the popedom, until he became the popedom itself.

  6. Do you imagine I am ignorant how bishoprics and the popedom are procured at Rome?

  7. Both had been delivered from a popedom on the banks of the Tiber, now they will be confronted by a popedom on the banks of the Thames; and the despotism of the Pope shall be even exceeded by the despotism of the Prince.

  8. He saw that ambition was the great passion of the cardinal, and he adroitly infused into his mind the hope of reaching the Popedom through his influence and assistance.

  9. Clement opposed them with that resistance of inertia by which the popedom has gained its greatest victories: siluit, he remained silent.

  10. Thus the popedom and England embraced each other, and nothing appeared more distant than that Christian revolution which was destined very shortly to emancipate Britain from the tutelage of the Vatican.

  11. A time not less important also was approaching--that in which the action of the popedom was to come to an end.

  12. We may even affirm that the popedom has always felt a peculiar affection for its conquests in Britain, and that they would have been the last it would have renounced.

  13. Charles might discover the trick and make the popedom suffer for it.

  14. The step might prove his ruin; but if he succeeded he was saved and the popedom with him.

  15. The crafty pontiff has concealed his game, the king shall beat him openly; and from age to age the popedom shall shed tears over the imprudent folly of a medici.

  16. The struggles of England with the popedom began shortly after the dissemination of the English New Testament by Tyndale.

  17. The cardinal could only attain the popedom through the emperor or the king of France; for then, as now, it was the secular powers that really elected the chief of catholicity.

  18. In the three preceding chapters the Holy Empire has been described in what is not only the most brilliant but the most momentous period of its history; the period of its rivalry with the Popedom for the chief place in Christendom.

  19. The Popedom had no minorities, as yet few disputed successions, few revolts within its own army--the host of churchmen through Europe.

  20. But so the accursed popedom has done in the teachings of its pillars and supporters the monks, who regard the sufferings of Christ as merely an example to us.

  21. But in all Popedom the office now is but a mere name, to the sin and shame of the entire Christian Church.

  22. Shortly afterward he sold the popedom to Gregory VI, so that he might be free to marry an Italian princess.

  23. During the whole of Innocent's Popedom he had been more or less at war with his citizens notwithstanding his success at first.

  24. The four years that elapsed between his return to his convent and his election to the Popedom (or to speak more justly the bishopric of Rome) were years of trouble.

  25. During the eight years of Leo's popedom Hildebrand had been at the head of affairs in Rome, where erring priests and simoniacal bishops had been not less severely brought to book than in other places.

  26. The words of forbearance came with such weight from that daring, fearless heart, which has braved the wrath of popedom and empire above for God, and still braves excommunication and ban!

  27. What a grand subject for a history the Popedom is!

  28. The contest lasted till the death of Gregory in exile, and was carried on by his successors, until during the popedom of Calixtus II.

  29. Now, the Popedom is an office, and on the death of one incumbent his successor takes over all his rights and powers and privileges whatever they may be.

  30. At first he almost took offence, reminding me with overt haughtiness that he had already assured me that all the treasures of Spain or of the Popedom were secondary to a woman's honour.

  31. The present budget of the Popedom is supposed to be within a couple of millions sterling, and even that paid in a manner by no means creditable to Italian punctuality.

  32. The Popedom has always been a narrow territory, and yet the Papacy has been the great disturber of Europe for a thousand years.

  33. Popedom in 1523, had, after much trimming and vacillation between Francis I.

  34. She was the daughter of Fabrizio, brother of that protonotary Colonna, whose miserable death at the hands of the hereditary enemies of his family, the Orsini, allied with the Riarii, then in power for the nonce during the popedom of Sixtus IV.

  35. The archbishop, filled with covetousness, and seeing at once how entirely the popedom depended on the king, threw himself trembling with joy at Philip's feet.

  36. Accordingly, he composed his pamphlet 'Against the Popedom at Rome, instituted by the Devil.

  37. The mere external power which the Popedom exercised in its government of the Church, in the imposition of outward acts and penalties--appeared, so far, to Luther a matter of indifference in respect to religion and the salvation of souls.

  38. Luther for the first time felt himself, as he wrote to Spalatin, really free, being at length convinced that the Popedom was Antichrist and the seat of Satan.

  39. Popedom they pray so often with great vehemence, but we are very cold and careless in praying?

  40. Because," said he, "in my popedom I lived without law, and now I wander like a beast.

  41. During his popedom he kept a brazen head, which he regularly consulted concerning diabolical subjects.

  42. Lord Brougham, in his late memorable cosmopolite speech, has charged the popedom with being the origin of the European convulsions.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "popedom" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    archbishopric; aristocracy; bishopric; chancellery; chieftaincy; consulate; deanery; dictatorship; directorship; episcopacy; hierarchy; leadership; lordship; magistracy; mastership; mastery; mayoralty; nobility; papacy; pontificate; prefecture; presidency; principality; protectorate; regency