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発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ədˈvaʊ.z(ə)n/

名詞

advowson (複数形 advowsons)

1. (UK, ecclesiastical law) The right to present a nominee to a vacant ecclesiastical benefice or church office.
   • 1866, Rev. Alban Butler, chapter IV, in The Lives of the Saints‎^[1], volume II (February):

     The advowson of the parsonages of Sempringham and Tirington, being the right of his father, he [St. Gilbert] was presented by him [his father] to those united livings, in 1123.

   • 2017, Ben Aaronovitch, The Furthest Station, Gollancz, page 88:

     Advowson is the right to appoint the incumbent clergy of a parish, so three advowsons meant three incumbents.

参照

• advowson in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913