papable

PHOTOS: The buzz around Simone Biles' return is papable.

The threat was too papable to be mistaken, nor was he sufficiently conversant with the world of policy to detect its fallacy.

These wants, papable as they are in times of peace, become doubly pressing in time of war.

Lord Bacon somewhere describes a certain candidate for the Chair of St. Peter as being 'papable.'

When Bacon wrote, one to be 'papable' must have been born in lawful wedlock; must have no children nor grandchildren living; must not have a kinsman already in the Conclave; must be already a Cardinal; all which facts this single word sums up.