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sultany

sultany is the obsolete form of sultanry.

Meaning of sultanry

Noun

sultanry (plural sultanries)

  1. (archaic) sultanate.
    • Neither should I make any great difficulty to affirm the same of the sultanry of the Mamalukes ; where slaves , and none but slaves , bought for money , and of unknown descent , reigned over families of freemena. 1627 (date written), Francis [Bacon], “Considerations Touching a Warre with Spaine. […]”, in William Rawley, editor, Certaine Miscellany Works of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount...

Forms of sultany

pluralsultanies

Questions about sultany

What is sultany the obsolete form of?
Sultany is the obsolete form of sultanry.

Words near sultany in the dictionary

  1. sultanries
  2. sultanry
  3. sultans
  4. sultanship
  5. sultanships
  6. sultany
  7. sulthiame
  8. sultiame
  9. sultim
  10. sultims
  11. sultine

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