deanery
IPA: dˈinɝi
noun
- The position held by a dean.
- The house in which a dean lives.
- The group of parishes for which a rural dean has responsibility.
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Examples of "deanery" in Sentences
- Churches excluded from the new deanery.
- Attached to the deanery is the Norman prior's chapel.
- The deanery was bankrupt and there was a public appeal.
- In part of the deanery buildings is the cathedral museum.
- The title superintendent referred to the head of a deanery.
- It is in the Deanery of Orford in the Archdeaconry of Suffolk.
- It is in the Deanery of Wilford in the Archdeaconry of Suffolk.
- It was part of the Orsett deanery and the archdeaconry of Essex.
- The parish is in the deanery of Brooke and the archdeaconry of Norfolk.
- It falls in the Deanery of Carlford, and in the Archdeaconry of Suffolk.
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