abbacy
Americannoun
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the rank, rights, privileges, or jurisdiction of an abbot.
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the term of office of an abbot.
noun
Etymology
Origin of abbacy
1400–50; late Middle English abbacie, abbat ( h ) ie < Late Latin abbātia ( cf. abbey), equivalent to abbāt- ( see abbot) + -ia -ia
Example Sentences
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Scrabble annoys me; I can’t trust a game in which a well-played za scores more points than, well, abbacy.
From Slate • Feb. 19, 2020
This was during the abbacy of Leonard Houndalre, who presided over the Community 1402-13.
From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by Rogers, William Henry Hamilton
The name of Mochaoi's abbacy, n' Aondruim, was in time anglicised to Antrim.
From The Divine Adventure Volume IV by Macleod, Fiona
The first outcome of the new connexion was his appointment to the abbacy of Aberbrothock by the queen regent, before her marriage, probably in June 1514.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various
For some years the new institute seemed little likely to prosper; few novices came, and in the first years of Stephen’s abbacy it seemed doomed to failure.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" by Various
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