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metropolitancy

metropolitancy noun: the see or province of a metropolitan.

Noun

metropolitancy (countable and uncountable, plural metropolitancies)

  1. (Orthodox Christianity) The see or province of a metropolitan.
    • […]; whereby, inſtead of his long evpected Entrance upon our deceaſed Fox’s Metropolitancy, he was in no ſmall Danger of gaining H⸺ter, had not the Lord Ranelaw, with ſome other Friends of his at Court, prevailed with our moſt gracious King W. to grant him his Pardon according to his ſaid...1738, Henry Pickworth’s Vindication of His Former Defence of a Certain Narrative, He Sometime Since Presented to the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Litchfield and Coventry, London, page 42
    • Where is the Archbishop and his Metropolitancy to remove this hard, concrete, substantial scandal in the Episcopate?1855, R[ichard] W[illiams] Morgan, The Church and Its Episcopal Corruptions in Wales; An Appeal to the People of England, 2nd edition, London: Robert Hardwicke, page 36

Examples of metropolitancy in a sentence

  • In the broad sense, “Rus’” designated all the vast lands under the rule of the House of Riurik and the spiritual authority of the Kievan metropolitancy.1981, Rethinking Ukrainian History, →ISBN, page 241:
  • He was stripped of his metropolitancy in 1763 and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1767 for his protests against confiscation of church properties by the Russian government.1988, A Thousand Years of Christianity in Ukraine: An Encyclopedic Chronology, page 166:

Forms of metropolitancy

pluralmetropolitancies

Questions about metropolitancy

What does metropolitancy mean?
Metropolitancy means the see or province of a metropolitan.
How do you use metropolitancy in a sentence?
In the broad sense, “Rus’” designated all the vast lands under the rule of the House of Riurik and the spiritual authority of the Kievan metropolitancy.
What part of speech is metropolitancy?
Metropolitancy is a noun.
What is the plural of metropolitancy?
The plural of metropolitancy is metropolitancies.

Words near metropolitancy in the dictionary

  1. metropolitan elites
  2. Metropolitan France
  3. metropolitanate
  4. metropolitanates
  5. metropolitancies
  6. metropolitancy
  7. metropolitanisation
  8. metropolitanise
  9. metropolitanised
  10. metropolitanises
  11. metropolitanising

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