The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nunciature \Nun"ci*a*ture\, n. [L. nunciare, nuntiare, to
announce, report, fr. nuncius, nuntius, messenger: cf. F.
nonciature, It. nunziatura. See Nuncio.]
The office of a nuncio.
--Clarendon.
Wiktionary
n. The status or rank of a nuncio.
Usage examples of "nunciature".
Mazarini had arrived from Rome with a retinue provided by Cardinal Barberini and augmented it from the permanent nunciature in Paris.
The world remained in a lethargy during the week of evil omens in which he didn't get out of the hammock even to eat, he used the fan to shoo off the tame birds who alighted on his body, he shooed away the splotches of light coming through the pansies thinking they were tame birds, he received no one, he gave no orders, but the forces of public order remained aloof when the mobs of hired fanatics stormed the palace of the Apostolic Nunciature, sacked its museum of historic relics, surprised the nuncio taking his siesta outdoors in the peaceful backwaters of the inner garden, dragged him naked onto the street, shat on him general sir, just imagine, but he didn't move from the hammock, he didn .