Crossword-Solution: SHRIEVALTY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Shrievalty | n. | The office, or sphere of jurisdiction, of a sheriff; sheriffalty. |
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| Office of a sheriff. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree;
supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this
application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir
J. Davies.
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"Delicious!"
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Sentences with SHRIEVALTY (5)
Ford beginning his shrievalty to-day: and, what with his and our houses being new painted, the street begins to look a great deal better than it did, and more gracefull.
Judges, small magistrates, officers large and small, the shrievalty, the water office, the tax office, all were to come within its purview.
Ford beginning his shrievalty to-day and, what with his and our houses being new painted, the street begins to look a great deal better than it did, and more gracefull.
All the rest is an obstinate and dismal allegiance to the days of Shrievalty, about as easy to recall as the days when the Pendragons wore golden collars and armlets.
Why this Missouri citizen and Federal official should in addition be clothed with a foreign territorial shrievalty of a county lying forty or fifty miles from his home is a mystery which was never explained outside a Missouri Blue Lodge.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1954).