Usually means: Right to appoint a clergyman.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. advowson: Merriam-Webster
  2. advowson: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. advowson: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. advowson: Collins English Dictionary
  5. advowson: Vocabulary.com
  6. advowson: Wordnik
  7. advowson: Wiktionary
  8. advowson: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. advowson: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Advowson, advowson: Dictionary.com
  11. Advowson: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Advowson: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. advowson: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. advowson: Rhymezone
  15. Advowson: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. advowson: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. advowson: FreeDictionary.org
  18. advowson: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. advowson: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. advowson: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. advowson: Merriam-Webster

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Advowson: Legal dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Advowson: Catholic Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (advowson)

▸ noun:  (UK, ecclesiastical law) The right to present a nominee to a vacant ecclesiastical benefice or church office.

Similar:
avowry, advowry, presentation, admission, avowance, ex-voto, avouchment, avocation, expectative grace, accessit, more...

Opposite:
disadvowson, nonadvowson, impropriation

Phrases:
advowson in gross, more...

Adjectives:
perpetual, next, whole, presentative, such, rich, donative, appendant, usual, naked, former

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Similar:
avowry, advowry, presentation, admission, avowance, ex-voto, avouchment, avocation, expectative grace, accessit, more...

Opposite:
disadvowson, nonadvowson, impropriation

Phrases:
advowson in gross, more...

Adjectives:
perpetual, next, whole, presentative, such, rich, donative, appendant, usual, naked, former



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