A variant or dialectal spelling of chaplainry; the role or office of a chaplain.
A spelling variant of chaplainry, reflecting different pronunciation or regional preferences in Middle and Early Modern English. The -ry suffix again indicates place or practice.
Medieval spelling was wild—the same word could appear five different ways in one document, which is why old texts are such detective work for historians trying to understand language evolution.
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