ecclesiastical state
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.49 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
7
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "And although in March, Captaine George Fransperg was taken with a fit of an Apoplexie, which caused his death, yet because the army was entred into the Ecclesiasticall State, and still marched forward, the Pope in the end of the moneth, resolued to come to an accord […]"
- "They solicited the aid of the miscreant Saracens, invaded the ecclesiastical State, entered the city, profaned the churches, extorted an oath of fidelity from the Romans, and dared to imprison the successor of St. Peter."
- "In the same year a conclave was permitted to be held at Venice; and in 1800, cardinal Chiaramonti, who was elected to the papal chair, took the title of Pius VII., and resumed the dominion of the Ecclesiastical State."
Usage
Inflected Forms
the Ecclesiastical State (canonical)
Ecclesiastical States (plural)