noun. The quality of being authoritative; an acting by authority; authoritative appearance.

noun. The quality of possessing authority.

noun. The quality of trustworthiness and reliability.

"But I take it that the kind of authoritativeness being invoked here is that of infallibility: 1 follows from the general teaching that the Church speaks infallibly when T satisfies one or more conditions for infallibility."

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