seigniory

American  

[seen-yuh-ree] / ˈsin jə ri /

Or signory

noun

• seigniories
  plural

1. the power or authority of a seignior.

2. History/Historical. a lord's domain.

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seigniory British  

/ ˈseɪnjərɪ, ˈsiːnjərɪ /

noun

1. less common names for a seigneury

2. (in England) the fee or manor of a seignior; a feudal domain

3. the authority of a seignior or the relationship between him and his tenants

4. a body of lords

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• seigniories
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of seigniory

1250–1300; Middle English seignorie < Old French; see seigneur, -y ³

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Example Sentences

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seigniory seigniories

One of the properties on which he wanted the public to lend him $35,500,000 was St. Donat's Castle in Wales, the Lord of San Simeon's European seigniory.

From Time Magazine Archive

Deported to Germany from his Nazi-occupied feudal seigniory in the English Channel was U.S.-born Robert Woodward Hathaway, Seigneur of Sark by his 1929 marriage to the Dame of Sark.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1672 the seigniory of Chambly granted to him.

From The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History by Various

The buildings of the seigniory were the "mansion," which was usually a log house, a fort, chapel, and mill.

From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene Bolton

He was the last lord seignior to live within the seigniory, which passed from him to his son-in-law John de Mowbray.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various

The great seigniories of Germanie, by one suc- cedyng in gouernment, haue been permanent in that good- lie state.

From A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde by Richard Rainolde

"It is the oldest of the seigniories," he continued.

From Jacqueline of Golden River by Ralph P. (Ralph Pallen) Coleman

The new head of the family never returned to his own castle, which, together with the vast domains attached to it, is ruled by the bailiffs of the seigniories of Plouernel and Mezlean.

From The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by Eug?ne Sue

The latter approved everything that our religious had done in the churches of those kingdoms and seigniories of his.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 23 of 55 1629-30 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by James Alexander Robertson

A few seigniories were established by that company; but, as we have seen, the country under its management was practically at a stand-still.

From Count Frontenac Makers of Canada, Volume 3 by William Dawson LeSueur

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