Crossword-Solution: SEIGNIORY
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Seigniory | n. | The power or authority of a lord; dominion. |
| Seigniory | n. | The territory over which a lord holds jurisdiction; a manor. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “SEIGNIORY”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| the position and authority of a feudal lord | 1 answer |
| feudal lordship | 2 answers |
| lordship | 33 answers |
| freehold | 38 answers |
| FEOFF | 42 answers |
| fief | 43 answers |
✏️ Suggest another clue
Know another question for crossword solution "SEIGNIORY"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Kind of apple
?
E
?
A
?
T
?
E
?
R
Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERETA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
12 +1
New Suggestion for "SEIGNIORY"
Related word tools
Sentences with SEIGNIORY (5)
LII "Thou, too, that to this fatal isle art led By way unwonted and till now unknown, That some possessor of the fairy's bed, May be for thee transformed to wave or stone, Thou shalt, with more than mortal pleasures fed, Have from Alcina seigniory and throne; But shalt be sure to join the common flock, Transformed to beast or fountain, plant or rock.
All laws proposed by the magistrates, or seigniory, had to be ratified by this higher and selecter council.
The seigniory, the county, the duchy becomes a patrimony which is loved through a blind instinct, and to which all are devoted.
The tax-collectors halt in their presence because the king well knows that feudal property has the same origin as his own; if royalty is one privilege seigniory is another; the king himself is simply the most privileged among the privileged.
The owner, thus rendered odious, finds himself obliged to tolerate his exactions to able to profit by them." Imagine, if you can, the evil which a country usurer exercises, armed against them with such burdensome rights; it is the feudal seigniory in the hands of Harpagon, or rather of old Grandet.