apostolicalness

English

Etymology

apostolical +‎ -ness

Noun

apostolicalness (uncountable)

1. (Christianity, obsolete) The state or quality of being apostolical.
   • 1735, The London Magazine‎^[1], volume 4, page 352:

     […] for the Question is not about the Succession, but the Regularity and Apostolicalness of it.

   • 1834, William Cave, Primitive Christianity: Or, The Religion of the Ancient Christians in the First Ages of the Gospel‎^[2]:

     And this wild and extravagant opinion has not wanted its patrons and defenders; but herein deserted by the more modest and moderate of their own party; besides that their apostolicalness (in this sense) is by the learned Daillé everlastingly shattered and broken.

   • 1851, Isaac Barrow, A Treatise of the Pope's Supremacy‎^[3], page 544:

     […] for their not regarding the Apostolicalness of his see was no matter of special consideration, seeing that other sees were also called Apostolical […]

Synonyms

• apostolicity

Translations

apostolicity — see apostolicity