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advowee|ædˌvaʊˈiː|
Forms: 3–7 avowe, 6–7 avowee, 7–9 advowee.
[a. OFr. avoué, earlier avoé, avoet:—L. advocāt-us in sense of patron; see advocate. Avoet, avoué, was the living descendant of advocāt-us, of which avocat was a later learned adaptation, as a title. In 15th c. the scribes sometimes Latinized avoué to advoué, whence the current Eng. form: cf. advowson. Though avowè and advowee are thus the same word, the former is associated with a sense which became obs. before the form advowee was established; and they are here treated separately: see avowe.]
1. An advocate, protector or patron: esp. a patron saint; see avowe, the older form used in this sense.
2. The advocate, protector, or patron of an ecclesiastical office or benefice. One who protected and defended its interests, and thus usually became privileged to nominate or present to it; the protection has long disappeared, but the right of presentation is retained as a marketable ‘property.’ One who holds the advowson.
1691Blount Law Dict. s.v., Advowee alias avowe (advocatus) is used for him that hath right to present to a Benefice. 1691Case of Exeter-Coll. 44 The Custody of Voidances, Presentments, Collations, etc. as Lords and Advowees. 1744J. Lewis Life of Pecock 252 He gave & granted them as if he were the patron or advowee of them. 1751Chambers Cycl., Advowees were the guardians, protectors, and, as it were, administrators of the temporal concerns of the churches..They are sometimes called by their primitive name Advowee, though more usually patron. |