Definitions for seigniories

seigniories seign·ior·y

Spelling: [seen-yuh-ree]
IPA: /ˈsin yə ri/

Seigniories is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 414 anagrams from letters in seigniories (eegiiinorss).

Definitions for seigniories

noun

  1. the power or authority of a seignior.
  2. History/Historical. a lord's domain.

Origin of seigniories

1250-1300; Middle English seignorie Old French; see seigneur, -y3

Examples for seigniories

Comporté and his partners in the seigniory had planned great things.

Well, Conrad of Nointel, you are leaving the court to return to your seigniory?

The King took the city and placed a new bishop in the seigniory.

The cost was to be his own; and he had no money, having spent it all on his seigniory.

This seigniory was granted in 1636, and is now the property of the Seminary of Quebec.

I offered my services as a butcher to the superintendent of the seigniory of Nointel.

The girl's property was within a seigniory held by the Church.

I am vested with low and high judicial powers in my seigniory.

This chronicler Trigan was the curé of the seigniory of Digoville.

Have I not, as a matter of right, six months' credit in my own seigniory?

Word Value for seigniories
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