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Definition of Abbotships
1. abbotship [n] - See also: abbotship
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abbotships
Literary usage of Abbotships
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"... we find taxations of abbotships. The cases became rarer later on without quite
disappearing. ..."
2. The Harleian Miscellany; Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1809)
"The Cardinal also held the Bishoprick of Winchester, of Worcester, Bath and Wells,
with a fourth, and two abbotships in Commendam : he had besides an hat ..."
3. Manual of Universal Church History by Johannes Baptist Alzog (1876)
"Moreover, as those who held land in fief became, by this very fact, the vassals
of princes, such, when appointed to bishoprics and abbotships, were required ..."
4. Norman Britain by William Hunt (1884)
"abbotships were held by laymen, who handed down their office to their children.
There was no ecclesiastical discipline, for the bishops were virtually ..."
5. History of England by Frederick York Powell, Thomas Frederick Tout (1906)
"... 1070. and many abbotships were filled at the Council of London by foreigners,
mostly learned and pious men with the good of the Church at heart, ..."
6. History of Scotland by Margaret MacArthur (1885)
"t.] ECCLESIASTICAL REFORMS. to many singular abuses. The abbotships were ..."
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