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
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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
In 1793 retired from the fur trade, and purchased seigniory of Mascouche in Lower Canada.
From The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History by Various
E His seigniory of St. Laurent made an earldom in 1676, 181.
From The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History by Various
He owned this estate of Lamoral in Canada, that is, two-thirds of the original seigniory; the other third belongs to the present seignior and seignioress in Richelieu-en-Bas.
From A Cry in the Wilderness by Mary E. (Mary Ella) Waller
Champlain, Lake, 4; Waubanakee name of, 6; Iroquois name of, 19; seigniories on, 19.
From Vermont A Study of Independence by Rowland E. (Evans) Robinson
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 seigniory of Mathieu d’Amours, sieur de Freneuse, lay between the two seigniories of his brother Louis at Jemseg and Nashwaak, extending a distance of seven leagues and including both sides of the river.
From Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 by W. O. (William Odber) Raymond
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
Neither Condé’s military clients, nor his numerous seigniories, nor his governments took any active part whatsoever.
From Political Women, Vol. 1 by Sutherland Menzies
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