Definition of Sokens

1. Noun. (plural of soken) ¹

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Definition of Sokens

1. soken [n] - See also: soken

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sokens

sojournment
sojournments
sojourns
soju
sokah
sokahs
sokaiya
sokaiyas
soke
sokeman
sokemanries
sokemanry
sokemans
sokemen
soken
sokens (current term)
sokes
soko
sokol
sokols
sokosho
sokubiotoshi
sol-fa
sol gel transformation
sola
sola gratia
sola topee
sola topi
solace

Literary usage of Sokens

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The People's History of Essex: Comprising a Narrative of Public and by Duffield William Coller (1861)
"... This Hundred contains the following 28 parishes, irrespective of tie sokens, which form a peculiar jurisdiction :— * Tlie valne. t ..."

2. Lectures on Early English History by William Stubbs (1906)
"Here, you see, the city is certainly divided into certain sokens or privileged ... You will, however, observe that although these sokens represent the later ..."

3. The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical by John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees, Thomas Hood, John Harris (1810)
"... within the sokens, which wills are kept in the church of Thor|>e. The Lord of the sokens. hath also this peculiar privilege, ..."

4. English Constitutional History from the Teutonic Conquest to the Present Time by Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead (1905)
"These private sokens gradually gave way before the increasing power of the citizens ; but while they existed, the inclusion of an aristocratic element ..."

5. English Constitutional History from the Teutonic Conquest to the Present Time by Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead, Philip Arthur Ashworth (1905)
"These private sokens gradually gave way before the increasing power of the citizens ; but while they existed, the inclusion of an aristocratic element ..."

6. The Governance of London: Studies on the Place Occupied by London in English by George Laurence Gomme (1907)
"... tendency somewhat unduly to minimise the measure of municipal administrative unity in the twelfth century ' shire' of London—the London of the sokens—in ..."

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