abbacy
the rank, rights, privileges, or jurisdiction of an abbot.
the term of office of an abbot.
Origin of abbacy
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How to use abbacy in a sentence
This sentence applied to no less than two archbishoprics and twelve bishoprics, besides innumerable abbacies.
The Thirty Years War, Complete | Friedrich SchillerThese monasteries were abbacies, as indeed were all houses for nuns founded before the Conquest.
Woman under Monasticism | Lina EckensteinSixty-four Benedictine nunneries date their foundation from after the Conquest, only three of which were abbacies.
Woman under Monasticism | Lina EckensteinSeveral of the Benedictine nunneries founded after the Conquest owed their foundation to abbacies of men.
Woman under Monasticism | Lina EckensteinThe same process was carried out with regard to abbacies, and indeed with all important places of ecclesiastical preferment.
British Dictionary definitions for abbacy
/ (ˈæbəsɪ) /
the office, term of office, or jurisdiction of an abbot or abbess
Origin of abbacy
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