catholicityn.
/kaθəˈlɪsɪti/ Catholic quality or character.
1.
a. The quality of being comprehensive in feeling, taste, sympathy, etc.; freedom from sectarian exclusiveness or narrowness.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > condition or state of being inclusive > [noun] > comprehensiveness > specifically in taste or feeling
catholicity1843
1843 Edinb. Rev. Dec. 274 One of the greatest and most attractive characteristics of his mind—its catholicity.
a1854 H. Reed Lect. Eng. Lit. (1878) ii. 55 It is important to cultivate a true catholicity of taste.
1882 J. Hawthorne Fortune's Fool (1883) i. xxxi Royalty itself could not compete with Lady Mayfair in the brilliant catholicity of her entertainments.
b. of religious feeling.
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1841–8 F. Myers Catholic Thoughts II. iv. 435 This great principle of Christian Brotherhood..a stronger feeling of the true Catholicity of Christianity.
1854 C. L. Balfour Working Women vi. 173 True Christian Catholicity of spirit.
1882 Farrar in Contemp. Rev. XLII. 813 The lessons of catholicity and toleration.
2. Universal prevalence; universality.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [noun] > generality or prevalence > universality
universality?c1400
university1553
universalness1561
universalty1567
epidemicalness1646
allnessa1649
epidemicity1716
universalism1835
catholicity1868
globality1931
1868 T. H. Huxley Physical Basis of Life 137 I share this catholicity of assimilation with other animals.
3. Of a church or doctrine: The character of being universally recognized or diffused.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > doctrine > [noun] > universal recognition of
catholicity1843
society > faith > aspects of faith > religion > a religion or church > [noun] > universal recognition of
catholicity1843
1843 tr. Mariotti's Italy Past & Pr. (1848) I. 113 Universality of dominion was now to be cemented by catholicity of faith and worship.
1845 J. H. Newman Ess. Devel. Christian Doctr. Introd. (L.) An appeal to the catholicity of the church, in proof that its doctrines are true, is an appeal to the voice of the multitude upon a dispute as to truth.
1887 Times (Weekly ed.) 7 Oct. 3/1 Thus will the catholicity of our Church be at length realized.
4.
a. The character of belonging to, or in accordance with, the Catholic Church.
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society > faith > sect > Christianity > Roman Catholicism > [noun]
RomeeOE
Babylon1530
popishness1531
popery?1536
popistry?1542
papistry1543
mass-monging1552
antichristianity1555
antichristianism1588
Babel1599
papacy1599
Romanism1603
poping1608
Babylonism1610
Catholicism1613
Romanality1637
catholicship1653
Romishness1653
Roman Catholicism1662
Roman Catholicity1806
catholicity1830
popism1841
old religion1934
1830 S. T. Coleridge Table-talk 6 June In the first century, catholicity was the test of a book or epistle..being canonical.
1842 E. B. Pusey Crisis Eng. Church 139 They wish to claim for the English Church the character of Catholicity.
1868 G. Hardy in Guardian 29 Apr. 494 A sincere and faithful trust in the Catholicity of the Church of England.
b. spec. of the Church of Rome: The doctrine or faith of that Church, catholicism.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > Catholicity > [noun]
universality1555
catholicness1605
catholicship1653
Catholicism1789
ecumenicity1840
catholicity1847
unsectarianism1866
ecumenicality1869
undenominationalism1883
ecumenicalism1888
ecumenism1948
ecumenics1982
1847 C. Dickens Let. 28 Jan. (1981) V. 20 The Swiss Radicals..know what Catholicity is.
1849 in R. Southey Common-place Bk. 2nd Ser. 80 When the professors of Catholicity arrogate to themselves political command.
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