advowson
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of advowson
1250–1300; < Anglo-French; replacing Middle English avoweisoun < Anglo-French, Old French avoeson ≪ Latin advocātiōn-. See advocation
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His fortune! what is't? th' advowson of Tyburn deanery?
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Robert Dodsley
VI. granted this Priory’s advowson or right of presenting alternately to Wimbish, to Ed.
From Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison by William Harrison
Robert, father of plaintiff, had given the advowson to John de Arderne, and John had enfeoffed Robert de Wyckham and Elizabeth his wife.
From Shakespeare's Family by C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael) Stopes
The advowson of St. Mary-le-Bow belongs to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and is the chief of his thirteen peculiars, or insulated, livings.
From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury
The advowson of the rectory anciently belonged to the Prioress and Convent of Clerkenwell, in whom it continued till their suppression by Henry VIII., when it came to the Crown.
From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury
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