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n. - The beliefs and practices of a universal Christian church. Broad-mindedness or liberality, as of tastes, interests, or views.

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  • A broad catholicity of spirit, rare even in a cosmopolitan journalist, was a distinguishing characteristic.
  • 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
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