canonryn.
/ˈkanənri/, U.S. /ˈkænənri/ 1. The benefice of a canon; the status, dignity, or office of a canon.
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society > faith > church government > council > chapter > member of chapter > [noun] > office of
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canonship1534
canony1641
canonicate1652
1482 W. Caxton Higden's Polychron. (1527) 305 b He..hadde geuen his letyll newe a chanonrye..in the chyrche of Lyncoln.
1687 London Gaz. No. 2307/2 The Seizure of the Canonries and Prebendaries.
1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 81 This Tollard..enjoyed his Canonry but few months.
1705 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1885) I. 104 His Canonry of Xt Church.
1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 139.
1862 Mrs. H. Wood Channings I. i. 2 A young man who had but just gained his minor canonry.
1886 Law Times Rep. 53 702/1 The profits of a canonry of Windsor were alienable by way of mortgage.
2. An establishment of canons or canonesses.
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society > faith > church government > monasticism > [noun] > religious foundation > for women only
convent1795
canonry1877
1877 W. F. Skene Celtic Scotl. II. 243 Boys and youths who are educated in the canonry.
1925 C. S. Durrant Link between Flemish Mystics & Eng. Martyrs i. ix. 130 John Busch himself travelled across Germany with three nuns of Bronope to reform an Austin Canonry.
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