Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being indefectible, or subject to no defect of decay.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being indefectible.
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- noun The quality of being
indefectible .
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Examples
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The "right" has to consider him conservative because otherwise, under its faulty understanding of infallibility and indefectibility, there'd be no Church.
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These pontificates were scandalous, and led to more scandalous things still; but none of them are a challenge to the indefectibility of the Church.
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I think we need to hold infallibility and indefectibility together at once.
Tissier de Mallerais speaks The details of the doctrinal talks 2009
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One cannot expect the Holy Father to grant faculties to an order which includes some, including at least one Bishop, who apparently have ceased to hold the Catholic dogma concerning the indefectibility of the Church.
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But they also believe in the indefectibility of the Church.
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Mr. Hoag is correct when he says that "to broadly paint the Church of Rome as having fallen away from the Faith is grave error contrary to the infallibility and indefectibility of the Church, especially when this accusation touches the person of the Roman Pontiff."
Bishop Alfonso de Galarreta chairman of the SSPX commission 2009
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This is why the Church teaches indefectibility and, in some limited circumstances, infallibility.
Archive 2007-03-01 2007
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This is why the Church teaches indefectibility and, in some limited circumstances, infallibility.
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But to broadly paint the Church of Rome as having fallen away from the Faith is grave error contrary to the infallibility and indefectibility of the Church, especially when this accusation touches the person of the Roman Pontiff.
Bishop Alfonso de Galarreta chairman of the SSPX commission 2009
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But to say that is not to contradict indefectibility.
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