Crossword-Solution: ADVOWSON
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Advowson | n. | The right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the church. [Originally, the relation of a patron (advocatus) or protector of a benefice, and thus privileged to nominate or present to it.] |
We have 6 clues for the answer “ADVOWSON”
| Clue | Answers |
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| RIGHT of presentation to benefice (law) | 1 answer |
| right of presentation to a vacant benefice | 1 answer |
| rectorship | 4 answers |
| glebe | 26 answers |
| Patronage | 64 answers |
| Living | 81 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which
covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
ORNAEC
Hint 3 another clue
COVER THE EYES
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Sentences with ADVOWSON (5)
They are nearly 12,000 in number; the advowson of more than half of them belongs to private persons, and of the remainder to the crown, bishops, deans and chapters, universities, and colleges.
Recall again the mental pain Of what I’ve had to do, MATILDA, And be assured that I’ve endured It, all along of you, MATILDA! THE REVEREND SIMON MAGUS A RICH advowson, highly prized, For private sale was advertised; And many a parson made a bid; The REVEREND SIMON MAGUS did.
The Baron de Caupene in Chalosse and I have betwixt us the advowson of a benefice of great extent, at the foot of our mountains, called Lahontan.
With the property went the advowson of Monk’s Acre, and it chanced that a year later the living fell vacant through the resignation of the incumbent.
Who would imagine it possible that in a very few lines so many remote ideas could be brought together? Since ’tis my doom, love’s undershrieve, Why this reprieve? Why doth my she advowson fly Incumbency? To sell thyself dust thou intend By candles end, And hold the contract thus in doubt, Life’s taper out? Think but how soon the market fails, Your sex lives faster than the males; And if to measure age’s span, The sober Julian were th’ account of man, Whilst you live by the fleet Gregorian.—CLEVELAND.