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Residence of a church official
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deanery
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WordNet
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n. the official residence of a dean the position or office of a dean [syn: deanship ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ As a lead-up to national Youth Sunday, parish youth groups have already enjoyed two deanery events. ▪ Eight deaneries lay within it, of which only one - Woodborough itself-had any kind of urban character. ▪ He stayed at the deanery ...
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A deanery (or decanate) is an ecclesiastical entity in the Roman Catholic Church , the Church of England and the Church of Norway . A deanery is either the jurisdiction or residence of a dean .
Usage examples of deanery.
July a special white, vellum-bound presentation copy is sent to Alice Liddell at the deanery, exactly three years after the celebrated expedition to Godstowe.
As Jarvis felt something like a consciousness that but for his folly the accident would not have happened, and also something very like shame for the manner he had shrunk from the danger Denbigh had so nobly met, he pretended a recall to his regiment, then on duty near London, and left the deanery.
He was an austere, grave, morose churchman, second chaplain to the Bishop, Archdeacon of Josas, having under him the two deaneries of Montlhéry and Châteaufort, and one hundred and seventy-four parish priests.