Explore Cardinalate through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like clergy. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Cardinalate in a sentence
Cardinalate meaning
- The dignity and ecclesiastic office of Roman Catholic cardinal.
- The Roman Catholic cardinals, taken collectively.
Synonyms of Cardinalate
Using Cardinalate
- The main meaning on this page is: The dignity and ecclesiastic office of Roman Catholic cardinal. | The Roman Catholic cardinals, taken collectively.
- Useful related words include: clergy.
- In the example corpus, cardinalate often appears in combinations such as: the cardinalate, cardinalate in, cardinalate on.
Context around Cardinalate
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 6 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 14 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Cardinalate
- In this selection, "cardinalate" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, 251, pope, piccolomini and expires stand out and add context to how "cardinalate" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include to the cardinalate and cardinal the cardinalate expires. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "cardinalate" sits close to words such as aaon, abbv and abdalla, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with cardinalate
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
His appointment came about as the replacement of Gabriele Filippucci who declined the cardinalate. (14 words)
He elevated three of his closest relatives to the cardinalate and gave others important positions. (15 words)
Further, only one relative (and only "if otherwise suitable") was to be raised to the cardinalate. (16 words)
The reason a prelate of such transcendent merits received the cardinalate so late in life seems to have been that he had waived his claims to the elevation in favour of an older brother. (34 words)
Eamon Duffy, Saints & Sinners: A History of the Popes, 251. Cardinalate Those who suffered under his conscientious economics had managed to convince Pope Clement XIV to elevate him into the cardinalate. (31 words)
College and orders of cardinalate Pope Sixtus V limited the number of cardinals to 70, comprising six cardinal bishops, 50 cardinal priests, and 14 cardinal deacons. (26 words)
Example sentences (14)
Eamon Duffy, Saints & Sinners: A History of the Popes, 251. Cardinalate Those who suffered under his conscientious economics had managed to convince Pope Clement XIV to elevate him into the cardinalate.
He elevated two cardinals to the cardinalate in the only papal consistory of his cardinalate on 18 December 1591.
Another nephew, Cinzio Papareschi (died 1182), was also a cardinal, raised to the cardinalate in 1158, after Innocent's death.
Cardinalate Piccolomini was the administrator of the Archdiocese of Siena which his uncle had raised to the status of archbishopric.
Cardinalate Pope Paul VI created Luciani the Cardinal-Priest of San Marco in the consistory on 5 March 1973.
College and orders of cardinalate Pope Sixtus V limited the number of cardinals to 70, comprising six cardinal bishops, 50 cardinal priests, and 14 cardinal deacons.
Furthermore, Montini said to him via letter on 29 November 1952 that Pius XII had decided to raise him to the cardinalate.
Further, only one relative (and only "if otherwise suitable") was to be raised to the cardinalate.
He elevated three of his closest relatives to the cardinalate and gave others important positions.
His appointment came about as the replacement of Gabriele Filippucci who declined the cardinalate.
If a pope dies before revealing the identity of an in pectore cardinal, the cardinalate expires.
Pope Eugene IV elevated him to the cardinalate on 2 May 1444 after he managed to reconcile the pope and King Alfonso V of Aragon.
Since Borgia had renounced the cardinalate it was decided that it would be inappropriate for his bones to be moved into the church.
The reason a prelate of such transcendent merits received the cardinalate so late in life seems to have been that he had waived his claims to the elevation in favour of an older brother.
Common combinations with cardinalate
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the cardinalate 12×
- cardinalate in 2×
- cardinalate on 2×
- cardinalate pope 2×