A broad catholicity of spirit, rare even in a cosmopolitan journalist, was a distinguishing characteristic. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
This age is craving for what it calls catholicity; for more complete interchange and brotherhood of thought between all the nations of the earth. From Wordnik.com. [Literary and General Lectures and Essays] Reference
One might apply to him the word catholicity if it were not far too big and dignified an epithet. From Wordnik.com. [Among Famous Books] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
The catholicity of Presbyterianism is no mere sentiment. From Wordnik.com. [The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination] Reference
There is a catholicity, so to speak, in the very name of Homer. From Wordnik.com. [The Odyssey of Homer] Reference
This was the source of their catholicity, not an obstacle to it. From Wordnik.com. [Chesterbelloc] Reference
Dukes of Alva and Savoy, and demonstrate the catholicity of the Very. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
Going to Rome is for him the expression of his mission's catholicity. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-06-29] Reference
As they broaden out into catholicity they necessarily lose in efficiency. From Wordnik.com. [A Librarian's Open Shelf] Reference
He must have a catholicity, a power to see with a free and disengaged look every object. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860] Reference
What perhaps is most lacking in this thread on catholicity is the spirit of catholicity. From Wordnik.com. [Between fundamentalism and modernism] Reference
So Rome has introduced something new and different, hence it fails the test of catholicity. From Wordnik.com. [Progressing to ecclesiological debate] Reference
''There's a catholicity to it that was somewhat submarined after Vatican II,'' says the Rev. From Wordnik.com. [Groundswell of support may revive use of Latin Mass] Reference
Such catholicity leads, as a matter of course, to sympathy for ... every side of every issue. From Wordnik.com. [Slow Motion] Reference
These associations also increased in her that catholicity of spirit which afterwards seemed so prominent. From Wordnik.com. [Elizabeth Fry] Reference
If you leave college without catholicity of taste, something is wrong either with the college or with you. From Wordnik.com. [Public Speaking] Reference
For full catholicity, every nation, every culture has its own part to play in the universal plan of salvation. From Wordnik.com. [Pope John Paul II] Reference
They can be met in but one way: by the breadth and broadening of human reason, by catholicity of taste and culture. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference
In this catholicity I cannot help thinking that the library as an educational institution is a step ahead of the school. From Wordnik.com. [A Librarian's Open Shelf] Reference
A hermeneutic that respects the full catholicity of meaning needs to start by accepting abundance as a positive condition. From Wordnik.com. [AKMA’s Random Thoughts] Reference
He has excellent taste without recognizing boundaries between high and low -- an impressive catholicity of taste, you might say. From Wordnik.com. [Great minds ...] Reference
The width of its range and its catholicity may be estimated by its including William Blake and Dibdin, Bishop King and Dr. Maginn. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860] Reference
A fairly well-read man himself, for a sea-adventurer, he glimpsed a wideness of range and catholicity of taste that were beyond him. From Wordnik.com. [A LITTLE ACCOUNTWITH SWITHIN HALL] Reference
But this passing disclaimer, which alludes to no specific titles, can hardly prepare readers for the remarkable catholicity of Horwitz's collection. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Straussians] Reference
With quick wit the skipper acted, for those who go upon waters are of a catholicity of creed and good-fellowship very different from ordinary landsmen. From Wordnik.com. [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference
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