The status, practice, or exercise of the right of advowson; the privilege of presenting or nominating clergy to church positions.
From advowson + -ry (a state or condition suffix, as in 'slavery' or 'knavery'). Advowry means the practice or domain of holding advowson rights in the medieval church.
Advowry, advowson, advowee—this whole family of words documents a now-extinct medieval feudal practice, making them historical markers frozen in time by their specialized meanings.
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