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

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

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

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 Mary E. (Mary Ella) Waller

In 1667 retired to his seigniory of Boucherville.

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

May God our Lord protect you many years, with the addition of greater kingdoms and seigniories, according to the needs of Christendom.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 22 of 55 1625-29 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

The greater part of Canada was divided into large estates or seigniories, with the view of creating a colonial noblesse, and of stimulating settlement in a wilderness.

From Canada by Sir John George Bourinot

At that time, many of the old French seigniories fell into the conqueror's hands, and, by the power of a might that makes right, were allotted to various English officers for distinguished services.

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

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 Edward Gaylord Bourne

Already the banks of the St. Lawrence below Quebec were laid out in seigniories, and the farms were tolerably well cultivated.

From The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 by Charles Roger

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