abbacy
noun
the rank, rights, privileges, or jurisdiction of an abbot.
abbacies
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pluralof abbacy.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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This would be during the time that John Stokes was Abbot, between the two abbacies of John of Wheathampstead.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Albans With an Account of the Fabric & a Short History of the Abbey by Rev. Thomas Perkins
He also refused to consecrate Henry’s nominees to certain bishoprics and abbacies on the ground that they had not been chosen by free election by their chapters or their monks.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History by Various
And on this same occasion, among the others who accepted abbacies, Ernulf, who before was prior at Canterbury, succeeded to the abbacy in Peterborough.
From The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle by J. H. (James Henry) Ingram
It is asserted by all his biographers that while still a young man he assumed the monastic dress at Vallombrosa, and that he afterwards held successively two abbacies.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various
The same process was carried out with regard to abbacies, and indeed with all important places of ecclesiastical preferment.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History by Various
