canonry
Americannoun
PLURAL
canonriesnoun
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the office, benefice, or status of a canon
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canons collectively
Etymology
Origin of canonry
Example Sentences
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“It is a good promotion for us to have the beer here because it is a very popular drink in the Czech Republic,” said Father Tadeas from the Canonry of Premonstratensians, a Catholic order that came to Zeliv in the 12th century.
From Seattle Times
Foulques suffered somewhat in public estimation from the backsliding of Pierre de Roissi, whom he had taken as an associate, and who in preaching poverty amassed wealth and obtained a canonry at Chartres, where he rose to be chancellor.
From Project Gutenberg
Not satisfied with a canonry of Beauvais and a church with a cure of souls, we find him, in 1247, obtaining of Innocent IV. a dispensation to hold another cure.—Berger,
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Cardinal de' Medici was so delighted with them that he not only heaped benefits on all the relations of the painter, but rewarded him with a rich canonry, which he was allowed to transfer to his brother.
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The offer of an Honorary Canonry in Canterbury Cathedral, made in 1868 by Archbishop Longley, was the only dignity which he ever received; why this should have been the case is a question that has often been asked, and to which no satisfactory answer has ever been made.
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