chancery
noun
the office or department of a chancellor; chancellery.
chanceries
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pluralof chancery.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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This new external impulse to reshape the Middle East originates not in grand chanceries but in nongovernmental movements.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
In the years since, multiple other dioceses have sold or said they intended to sell their chanceries, including Brooklyn; Charleston, S.C.;
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2014
One hope in Western chanceries is that the Libyans themselves eventually will tire of Gaddafi, "a nasty reality of our times," as one diplomat calls him.
From Time Magazine Archive
With equal fervor, they have been waging their own behind-the-scenes battle in diplomatic chanceries and ministries around the world in the name of moderation and the status quo.
From Time Magazine Archive
After having worked some time as clerk in the chanceries of Chioggia and Feltre, his father being dead, he went to Venice, to exercise there his profession as a lawyer.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various
