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Definition of Sergeancy
1. n. The office of a sergeant; sergeantship.
Definition of Sergeancy
1. Noun. The rank or office of a sergeant; sergeantship. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sergeancy
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Sergeancy
Literary usage of Sergeancy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cheshire Notes and Queries (1882)
"... magisterial sergeancy of tho Macclesfield hundred, and the absolute power of
life and death which they exercised within its limits. ..."
2. Ingatestone and the Essex Great Road with Fryerning by E. E. Wilde, Archibald Christy (1913)
"Another method of holding land under the king was by what was called sergeancy.
The land was held subject to the performance of some service to the king, ..."
3. The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical by John Britton, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees, Thomas Hood, John Harris, Edward Wedlake Brayley (1813)
"It belonged to Alan de Eslington, in the time of Henry the Third, of whom he held
it by certain local services, of the species of sergeancy ; from this ..."
4. Lakes and rivers by Charles Ottley Groom Napier (1879)
"There was an ancient office called the " sergeancy of the Dee," by which a man
was appointed to see that these rules were carried out. ..."
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