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sergeantry

sergeantry is the alternative form of serjeanty.

Meaning of serjeanty

Noun

serjeanty (countable and uncountable, plural serjeanties)

  1. (historical) A land tenure in which a tenant provided his liege with some kind of personal service, as opposed to nonpersonal service, such as paying tax (socage)
    • The manor of Scrivelsby in England, has since the Middle Ages, been held by the Marmion family in grand serjeanty in exchange for their service as King's or Queen's Champion.

Forms of sergeantry

pluralsergeantries

Origin of sergeantry

From sergeant + -ry.

Questions about sergeantry

What is sergeantry the alternative form of?
Sergeantry is the alternative form of serjeanty.

Words near sergeantry in the dictionary

  1. sergeantcy
  2. sergeantess
  3. sergeantesses
  4. sergeanties
  5. sergeantries
  6. sergeantry
  7. sergeants
  8. sergeants at mace
  9. sergeants first class
  10. sergeants major
  11. sergeants-at-arms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sergeantry (page history and authors); serjeanty (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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