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seignory

seignory is the alternative form of seigniory.

Meaning of seigniory

Noun

seigniory (countable and uncountable, plural seigniories)

  1. The estate of a feudal lord.
    • Robert of Artoys baniſht though thou be, / From Fraunce thy natiue Country, yet with vs, / Thou ſhalt retayne as great a Seigniorie: / For vve create thee Earle of Richmond heere, […]1596, [attributed to William Shakespeare; Thomas Kyd], The Raigne of King Edward the Third: […], London: […] [T. Scarlet] for Cuthbert Burby, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]
  2. 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.1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […]...
  3. (historical) The elders forming the municipal council in a medieval Italian republic.
  4. The lordship (authority) remaining to a grantor after the grant of an estate in fee simple.

Forms of seignory

pluralseignories

Questions about seignory

What is seignory the alternative form of?
Seignory is the alternative form of seigniory.

Words near seignory in the dictionary

  1. seignories
  2. seignorize
  3. seignorized
  4. seignorizes
  5. seignorizing
  6. seignory
  7. Seihei
  8. Seiji
  9. Seik
  10. Seikh
  11. Seikhs

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