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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 .

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n. the official residence of a dean the position or office of a dean [syn: deanship ]

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Deanery \Dean"er*y\, n.; pl. Deaneries . The office or the revenue of a dean. See the Note under Benefice , n., 3. The residence of a dean. --Shak. The territorial jurisdiction of a dean. Each archdeaconry is divided into rural deaneries, and each deanery ...

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.