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Qualified for and considered likely to succeed to the papacy.

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Usage examples (6)
  • These wants, papable as they are in times of peace, become doubly pressing in time of war.
  • She's a tall, slender, elegantly beautiful Southern lady of some 50+ years I only offer this last detail, because you must appreciate that she is no mere girl of 30 or 40, she...
  • As much as I love and adore my beautiful girl, I don't think she's papable.
  • Her sense of failed responsibility for taking care of Papa's dog was papable.
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