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PAPACY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The government of the Roman Catholic Church
Synonyms:
papacy; pontificate
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("papacy" is a kind of...):
authorities; government; regime (the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit)
Meronyms (members of "papacy"):
Bishop of Rome; Catholic Pope; Holy Father; pontiff; pope; Roman Catholic Pope; Vicar of Christ (the head of the Roman Catholic Church)
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