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canonicate

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/ -kɪt, kəˈnɒnɪˌkeɪt /

noun

  1. the office or rank of a canon; canonry

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In the January of the following year, Pope Benedict presented our poet with the canonicate of Lombes, with the expectancy of the first prebend which should become vacant.

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas

A republic that could afford to be lavish in all other expenses, limited their bounty towards him to the begging of a canonicate for him from his Holiness, though Florence had confiscated his father's property.

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas

"To one of our canons, my son, who has had much to do with missions, and who, after long and painful apostolic labors, came six months since to repose in a canonicate of our abbey."

From A Romance of the West Indies by Sue, Eugène

However, he did return to take possession of his canonicate at Lombes, and to lose possession of his peace of mind.

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas

A further examination of his fitness for the office was committed to the Provost Frei and two members of the canonicate, Utinger and Hofmann.

From The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli by Hottinger, Johann Jakob

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