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Advowson

noun
1.
The right in English law of presenting a nominee to a vacant ecclesiastical benefice.





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... doom, love's undershrieve, Why this reprieve? Why doth my she-advowson fly Incumbency? To sell thyself dost thou intend By candle's end, And hold the contrast 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 ...
— Lives of the Poets, Vol. 1 • Samuel Johnson


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