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seneschally

seneschally is the alternative form of seneschalty.

Meaning of seneschalty

Noun

seneschalty (countable and uncountable, plural seneschalties)

  1. The office of seneschal.
  2. The term of office of a seneschal.
    Synonyms:
    seneschalship
  3. The jurisdiction of a seneschal, particularly (historical) the district governed by a seneschal in Languedoc and Normandy in late medieval and early modern France.

Forms of seneschally

pluralseneschallies

Questions about seneschally

What is seneschally the alternative form of?
Seneschally is the alternative form of seneschalty.

Words near seneschally in the dictionary

  1. senescences
  2. senescent
  3. senesces
  4. seneschal
  5. seneschallies
  6. seneschally
  7. seneschals
  8. seneschalship
  9. seneschalships
  10. seneschalsies
  11. seneschalsy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: seneschally (page history and authors); seneschalty (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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