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English
Etymology
From apostolical + -ness.
Noun
apostolicalness (uncountable)
- (Christianity, obsolete) The state or quality of being apostolical.
1735, The London Magazine, 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: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, 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 […]
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