abbotry

English

Etymology

From abbot +‎ -ry.

Noun

abbotry (plural abbotries)

1. The position of abbot.

   Synonym: see at abbacy

   • 1781, Samuel Saunders, A description of the curiosities of Glastonbury, in Somersetshire, page 43:

     Thus ended the long and prosperous succession of the Abbotry of this renowned monastry, which, being a mitered one, gave its abbots great power and influence both in church and state.

   • 1871, James Redding Ware, The Isle of Wight, page 93:

     This gives an average to the reign of each abbot of nearly a quarter of a century, but Abbot Walter, elected in 1323, found the abbotry so good that he held it no less than fifty-five years.

   • 1998, Lewis Ellingham, Kevin Killian, Poet Be Like God: Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance, →ISBN:

     Philip Whalen was stung and nonplussed by Spicer's criticism, though in later years, mellowed by Zen abbotry, he dismissed Spicer as "unpleasant to everyone."

   • 2000, Robert Brunner, Letters from Martin: Summer, 1252 A.D, →ISBN, page 18:

     The abbot's body was lifted onto a dray and carried thus in haste to the abbotry offices.