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The cardinalate was expanded and internationalized, eventually given the power of electing the pope.— orrologion
Modesty best becomes the young; Giovanni's cardinalate, remember, has not yet been proclaimed, and 't is wisest to hold our tongues till we may wag them truthfully.— Historic Boys Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times
The cardinalate was rather eagerly sought by him and his friends on the ground of what he had already done, and was expected yet to do, for pope and king, than voluntarily offered by the pope.— The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics
To Lucretia he owed his cardinalate, and he was a most devoted retainer; "an elderly man, a worthy person of the house of Borgia," so Pozzi wrote to Ferrara.— Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day
Possibly, too, his clerical profession and the cardinalate which he was soon to hold gave him an advantage which they did not possess; for, whenever he wanted to obtain credence for a more than usually monstrous perversion of truth, he swore "as became a cardinal and on the honour of the cardinalate".— Henry VIII.
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