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

Etymology

Origin of seigniory

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

Example Sentences

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seigniory seigniories

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

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

In 1675 sold out his rights at Cataraqui to La Salle; and four years later acquired the seigniory of Senneville.

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

It was the second week in May when the seigniory farmers began to arrive and closet themselves with Mr. Ewart in the office.

From A Cry in the Wilderness by Waller, Mary E. (Mary Ella)

P Represents Montreal in first Parliament, 1792, 4; his patriotism, 4; oratorical gifts, 4; services during American invasion, 1775-1776, 5, 33; acquires seigniory of La Petite Nation, 5-6.

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

May God protect your Catholic and royal person, granting greater kingdoms and seigniories.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 36, 1649-1666 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 Bourne, Edward Gaylord

"I knew," said Chrysler, "that you had your seigniories in Quebec, and some sort of a feudal history, far back, but I never dreamed of such seats."

From The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making by Lighthall, W. D. (William Douw)

And whereas diuers of the rulers in those daies here in this land were called kings, those had more large seigniories than the Cassibellane a King. other, as Cassibellane, who was therefore called a king.

From Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (3 of 8) by Holinshed, Raphael

The province was to be divided into counties, and each county into seigniories, baronies, and precincts.

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

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 Sue, Eug?ne