Adjective : of cardinal significance.    From Dictionary.com. 

It was in 1961, and Croetine's uncle-my great-uncle-had been appointed to a cardinalship and was then stationed at the Vatican.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates]

The English dispute the privileges of his cardinalship, 170.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius Containing a Copious and Circumstantial History of the Several Important and Honourable Negotiations in Which He Was Employed; together with a Critical Account of His Works] Reference

Were the first who disputed with cardinal Richelieu the privileges of the cardinalship, 170.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius Containing a Copious and Circumstantial History of the Several Important and Honourable Negotiations in Which He Was Employed; together with a Critical Account of His Works] Reference

Cardinal Bourbon said, he would forego his part in paradise, if he might keep his cardinalship in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ten Commandments] Reference

Roderigo had had some reluctance about accepting the cardinalship, which kept him fast at Rome, and would have preferred to be General of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Borgias Celebrated Crimes] Reference

They have found paradise, they are in their kingdom already; this is their heaven, and they desire to hear of no other; they are of his mind who said, If he might keep his cardinalship in Paris, he would give up his part in paradise.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lord's Prayer] Reference

She had the satisfaction of at last seeing the Bishop of Lucon promoted to the cardinalship she had so often solicited for him in vain; but, at the same time, the king called to the council Cardinal Rochefoucauld, "not through personal esteem for the old cardinal," says Richelieu, "but to cut off from the new one all hope of a place for which he might be supposed to feel some ambition.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5] Reference

With the emoluments of the cardinalship and the ministry, I say too little when I say two millions a year. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vicomte De Bragelonne] Reference

"The king," says D'Alembert, "to satisfy at once the delicacy of their friendship, and that of their cardinalship, and to preserve at the same time that academical equality, of which this enlightened monarch (Louis XIV.) well knew the advantage, sent to the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)] Reference

(9) See the folly of those who, for vain pleasures and profits, will lose such a glorious kingdom; like that cardinal of France who said, ‘He would lose his part in paradise, if he might keep his cardinalship in Paris.’.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lord's Prayer] Reference