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Seigniory \Seign"ior*y\, n.; pl. -ies. [OE. seignorie, OF. seigneurie, F. seigneurie; cf. It. signoria.]
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n. (alternative form of seigneurie English)
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Usage examples of "seigneury".
No ruler of a Grand Duchy ever cherished his honour dearer or exacted homage more persistently than did Louis Racine in the Seigneury of Pontiac.
As he had come home from the futile public meeting, galloping through the streets and out upon the Seigneury road in the dusk, his horse had shied upon a bridge, where mischievous lads waylaid travellers with ghostly heads made of lighted candles in hollowed pumpkins, and horse and man had been plunged into the stream beneath.
The loss of the Seigneury had therefore cut deep, but there had been a more hateful affront still.
He had, however, made a reputation, which he had seemed not to value, save as a means of showing hostility to the governing race, and the Seigneury of Pontiac, when it fell to him, had more charms for him than any celebrity to be won at the bar.
I was led to expect that this Seigneury and all in it and on it should be mine.
Truth was, Louis Racine would rather have parted with the Seigneury itself than with these relics asked for.
George Fournel was the heir to the Seigneury of Pontiac, not Louis Racine.
Your husband is the natural heir, and it is only just that the Seigneury should go on in the direct line.
She had gone so far, she was prepared to go further to save this Seigneury to Louis.
He is ill, he is--crippled, he cherishes the Seigneury beyond its worth a thousand times.
Do you think that if he knew that will existed, he would be now at the Seigneury, or I here?
Can you wonder that this dreamer, when the Seigneury of Pontiac came to him, felt as if a new life were opened up to him, and saw a way to some of his ambitions.
You--what sort of place would you, an Englishman, have occupied at the Seigneury of Pontiac!
He was a man of strange whims and vanities, and his resentment at his exclusion from the Seigneury of Pontiac had become a fixed idea.
His great schemes were completed, he was a rich man, and he had pictured himself retiring to this Seigneury, a peaceful and practical figure, living out his days in a refined repose which his earlier life had never known.