Definition of "catholicity" []

• The condition or quality of being catholic; breadth or inclusiveness. (noun)
• General application or acceptance; universality. (noun)
• Roman Catholicism. (noun)

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• "This age is craving for what it calls catholicity; for more complete interchange and brotherhood of thought between all the nations of the earth."
• "One might apply to him the word catholicity if it were not far too big and dignified an epithet."
• "But she, in externally Christianizing the world, permits herself to be seduced by the world; thus her universality or catholicity is not that of the"