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Seigniory   Listen
noun
Seigniory  n.  (pl. seigniories)  
1.
The power or authority of a lord; dominion. "O'Neal never had any seigniory over that country but what by encroachment he got upon the English."
2.
The territory over which a lord holds jurisdiction; a manor. (Written also seigneury, and seignory)





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"Seigniory" Quotes from Famous Books



... before the king. A young girl, an orphan, who had a considerable estate, married a fine young fellow who had nothing. The girl's property was within a seigniory held by the Church. The bishop of the diocese, an arrogant scion of the great nobility, claimed the girl's estate on the ground that she had married privately, and thus had cheated the Church out of one of its rights as lord of the seigniory—the ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain


Words linked to "Seigniory" :   berth, signory, office, feudal lordship, land, seigneury, landed estate, demesne, spot, billet, estate, place, acres, position, post, situation


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