Word.ws English Dictionary

shrievalty

shrievalty noun: the office, jurisdiction, or tenure of a sheriff (chiefly in reference to the British office; uncommon in reference to the American office).

Noun

shrievalty (plural shrievalties)

  1. The office, jurisdiction, or tenure of a sheriff (chiefly in reference to the British office; uncommon in reference to the American office).
    • After discourse of this, and of supplying the garrison with some more horse, we rose; and Sir J. Minnes and I home again, finding the street about our house full, Sir R. Ford beginning his shrievalty to-day and, what with his and our houses being new painted, the street begins to look a great deal...1663, Samuel Pepys, Diary of Samuel Pepys, September/October 1663
    • --Can any of your readers inform me the origin of the delivery of water-buckets, glazed and painted with the city arms, given to the sheriffs of London and Middlesex at the expiration of the year of their shrievalty?1851, Various, Notes and Queries, Number 68, February 15, 1851

shrievalty meaning in Tamil

shrievalty in Tamil

மாவட்ட மணியப் பதவு

Examples of shrievalty in a sentence

  • Ford beginning his shrievalty to-day and, what with his and our houses being new painted, the street begins to look a great deal better than it did, and more gracefull.1663, Samuel Pepys, Diary of Samuel Pepys, September/October 1663:
  • He ought to do something to make his shrievalty memorable .1911, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Brother Copas:
  • The district court granted the shrievalty to contestor Shaw!1996 March 1, Larry D. Ball, Desert Lawmen: The High Sheriffs of New Mexico and Arizona Territories, 1846-1912, UNM Press, →ISBN:

Synonyms of shrievalty

Forms of shrievalty

pluralshrievalties

Words formed from shrievalty

Questions about shrievalty

What does shrievalty mean?
Shrievalty means the office, jurisdiction, or tenure of a sheriff (chiefly in reference to the British office; uncommon in reference to the American office).
What is shrievalty in Tamil?
Shrievalty in Tamil is மாவட்ட மணியப் பதவு. See Shrievalty meaning in Tamil.
How do you use shrievalty in a sentence?
Ford beginning his shrievalty to-day and, what with his and our houses being new painted, the street begins to look a great deal better than it did, and more gracefull.
What part of speech is shrievalty?
Shrievalty is a noun.
What is the plural of shrievalty?
The plural of shrievalty is shrievalties.

Words near shrievalty in the dictionary

  1. shrieks
  2. shriekt
  3. shrieky
  4. shrieval
  5. shrievalties
  6. shrievalty
  7. shrieve
  8. shrieved
  9. shrieves
  10. shrieving
  11. shrift

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: shrievalty (page history and authors); shrievalty (Tamil Wiktionary) (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “shrievalty.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/shrievalty. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.