signory
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These demands we forced the signory to grant, and gave our promise that disorders should cease.
From Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight by Holt, Mathew Joseph
Altogether the city was a very desirable signory.
From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Sedgwick, Henry Dwight
In spite of checks here and there, the state of Milan became more and more powerful, and the signory of the Visconti by far the greatest of the tyrannies in Italy.
From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Sedgwick, Henry Dwight
Of these magistrates of this upper stage consists the signory.
From The Commonwealth of Oceana by Harrington, James
She was lady, by inheritance, of the signory.
From Notes and Queries, Number 179, April 2, 1853. A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George
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