Crossword clues for cardinalship
cardinalship
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cardinalship \Car"di*nal*ship\, n. The condition, dignity, of office of a cardinal
WordNet
n. the office of cardinal
Usage examples of "cardinalship".
They were charged to renew to Briconnet and Philippe de Luxembourg the promise of the cardinalship, and had full powers of negotiation in the name of their master, both in case Charles should wish to include Alfonso II in the treaty, and in case he should refuse to sign an agreement with any other but the pope alone.
His canons and grand-vicars were good old men, rather vulgar like himself, walled up like him in this diocese, without exit to a cardinalship, and who resembled their bishop, with this difference, that they were finished and he was completed.
With the emoluments of the cardinalship and the ministry, I say too little when I say two millions a year.
On the one hand, he avoids bringing down enmity on his own head—but he also must know that I'll go ahead and resign the cardinalship without or without his agreement to the petition.