seigniory
Americannoun
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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
Etymology
Origin of seigniory
1250–1300; Middle English seignorie < Old French; see seigneur, -y 3
Example Sentences
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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
The seigniory of Beaupré below Quebec had 678 inhabitants and the Island of Orleans 471.
From Count Frontenac Makers of Canada, Volume 3 by LeSueur, William Dawson
In English law the term “honour” is used of a seigniory of several manors held under one baron or lord paramount.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various
He continued to be a farmer on the Karnak farm, a dependency of the fief of Mezlean, held under the suzerainty of the seigniory of Plouernel.
From The Blacksmith's Hammer, or The Peasant Code A Tale of the Grand Monarch by Sue, Eug?ne
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