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bedelry

bedelry is the obsolete form of beadlery.

Meaning of beadlery

Noun

beadlery (plural beadleries)

  1. The office or jurisdiction of a beadle.

Forms of bedelry

pluralbedelries

Questions about bedelry

What is bedelry the obsolete form of?
Bedelry is the obsolete form of beadlery.

Words near bedelry in the dictionary

  1. bedell
  2. bedelliid
  3. bedelliids
  4. bedells
  5. bedelries
  6. bedelry
  7. bedels
  8. bedelship
  9. bedelships
  10. bedeman
  11. bedemen

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bedelry (page history and authors); beadlery (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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