seigniory

American  

[seen-yuh-ree] / ˈsin yə ri /

Or signory

noun

plural

seigniories

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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Etymology

Origin of seigniory

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

Example Sentences

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

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

Obedient to the law of usage, after a certain number of years Stephan became a vassal of the seigniory.

From The Blacksmith's Hammer, or The Peasant Code A Tale of the Grand Monarch by Sue, Eug?ne

Bk Of Berthier, forms a volunteer company, from inhabitants of his seigniory, 95; an intimate friend of Brock, 95; his zeal appreciated by Sir James Craig, 96.

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