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词汇 pontiff
释义 pontiff
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈpɒn.tɪf/ us /ˈpɑːn.t̬ɪf/
formal for pope (= the leader of the Roman Catholic Church)教皇(pope的正式说法)
Synonyms
Vicar of Christ
pope
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pontiff | American Dictionary


pontiff
noun[ C ]
us/ˈpɑn·tɪf/
a pope (= leader of the Roman Catholic Church)

Examples of pontiff


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Pollard shows him to be neither a radical nor a reactionary but a deeply pious, liturgically conservative pontiff.
Today an angel announced the death of the pontiff to his disciples and the demented executioners were declaring to the populace that they had done those things unwillingly.
Chadwick depicts the four pontiffs vividly.
But because the most scandalous charges were suppressed, those charges obviously being of a conscientious nature, the most severe penalties were not to be dreaded by that pontiff.
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He shares with the wartime pontiff an authoritarian centralist world-view and a deep distrust of liberalism, modernity, and the ravages of moral relativism.
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According to the abbot, he was penitent and turned away from his sins as pontiff.
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These few words have been interpreted by some partisans of a conspiracy theory as evidence that the late pontiff had indeed been poisoned.
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His successor will be a pontiff that nobody expects.
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Had he stayed in office longer, the pontiff may have had more success in the enactment of these reforms.
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Corsini had been an aristocratic lawyer and financial manager under preceding pontiffs.
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He spent about two years of unremitting toil in arranging the design and composing the models for the tomb of the pontiff.
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Antipopes also have regnal names, and also use the ordinal to show their position in the line of previous pontiffs with their names.
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Till date, 32 pontiffs have headed this matha.
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The tiara and keys are typical symbols used in the coats of arms of pontiffs, which symbolize their authority.
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The care of these schools being considered outside the scope of the congregation, it was relieved of their charge by the same pontiff in 1617.
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