Usually means: Authority and tenure of abbot.
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  1. abbacy: Merriam-Webster
  2. abbacy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. abbacy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. abbacy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. abbacy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Abbacy, abbacy: Wordnik
  7. abbacy: Wiktionary
  8. abbacy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. abbacy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. abbacy: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Abbacy, abbacy: Dictionary.com
  12. Abbacy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. abbacy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. abbacy: Rhymezone
  15. Abbacy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. abbacy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. abbacy: FreeDictionary.org
  18. abbacy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. abbacy: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. abbacy: Merriam-Webster

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▸ noun:  The dignity, estate, term, or jurisdiction of an abbot or abbess.

Similar:
benediction, abidal, avowry, abjuration, abdication, absolution, abettance, abidance, abiding, abjugation, more...

Opposite:
laity, secularism, laypeople

Adjectives:
rich, same, vacant, first, second, titular, valuable, long, great, whole, mitred

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Similar:
benediction, abidal, avowry, abjuration, abdication, absolution, abettance, abidance, abiding, abjugation, more...

Opposite:
laity, secularism, laypeople

Adjectives:
rich, same, vacant, first, second, titular, valuable, long, great, whole, mitred



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