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Plural of chancery

regular plural

The plural of chancery is chanceries.

Forms of chancery

Singularchancery /ˈt͡ʃɑːnsəɹɪ/
Pluralchanceries
Countablecountable and uncountable

Chanceries in a sentence

  • The territorial expansion of the United States thus caused no great political stir in the chanceries of Europe.1975, Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Capital. 1848-1875, published 1995, page 165

Meaning of chancery

  1. noun In England, formerly, the highest court of judicature next to the Parliament, exercising jurisdiction at law, but chiefly in equity; but under the jurisdiction act of 1873 it became the chancery division of the High Court of Justice, and now exercises jurisdiction only in equity.
  2. noun A court of equity; equity; a proceeding in equity.
  3. noun The type of building that houses a diplomatic mission or embassy.

Full definition of chancery

Questions about the plural of chancery

What is the plural of chancery?
The plural of chancery is chanceries.
Is chancery countable?
Chancery is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chancery (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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