seigniory
Americannoun
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seigniories
plural
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the power or authority of a seignior.
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History/Historical. a lord's domain.
noun
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less common names for a seigneury
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(in England) the fee or manor of a seignior; a feudal domain
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the authority of a seignior or the relationship between him and his tenants
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a body of lords
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of seigniory
1250–1300; Middle English seignorie < Old French; see seigneur, -y 3
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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
It was proposed to hold a seigniory exhibition of fruits, vegetables and cereals, the last of September.
From A Cry in the Wilderness by Mary E. (Mary Ella) Waller
E His seigniory of Des Islets made a barony in 1671, 181.
From The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History by Various
On the conquest of the district by the Normans under Fitz Hamon, Cardiff became the caput of the seigniory of Glamorgan, and the castle the residence of its lords.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" by Various
Who is it but the merchants who are buying up the seigniories and living in the manor-houses to-day?
From The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette by W. D. (William Douw) Lighthall
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 Raphael Holinshed
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 Herbert Eugene Bolton
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
The Sieur de Soulanges seems to have been highly favored by Frontenac for the three seigniories granted to him included an area of more than a hundred square miles.
From Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 by W. O. (William Odber) Raymond
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