popeship

popeship

(ˈpəʊpʃɪp)
n
(Ecclesiastical Terms) ecclesiast the office of a pope
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References in classic literature ?
It was, then, not without surprise and alarm, that at the very moment when Quasimodo was passing the Pillar House, in that semi-intoxicated state, a man was seen to dart from the crowd, and to tear from his hands, with a gesture of anger, his crosier of gilded wood, the emblem of his mock popeship.