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How to use canonry in a sentence

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This chair is linked to a canonry in the ancient cathedral of Durham, and it was held earlier in the twentieth century by Michael Ramsey.
But the armour, the swords, the jousting poles, these divine arquebuses, all this gorgeous canonry!
More useful was Le Sauvage's gift of a canonry in the cathedral at Courtrai, which Erasmus could exchange for an annual pension.
John Baptist de La Salle gave away his fortune and began taking steps to give up his canonry.
It was following this that he gave up his canonry and distributed his wealth.
Sometime during this period, Philips probably took holy orders, for in 1610 he was appointed to a canonry.
I thanked her humbly but promptly assured her that I would never exchange divine providence for a canonry or a benefice.
At the time he resigned his canonry, he discovered a new model of Church with which he identified, the Church of the simple and poor.
All prelates are not necessarily abbots, thus, in certain circumstances, a prior or an administrator may be the principal superior of a canonry.
Residential buildings surround the former castle and canonry houses. The Bishop's Palace is an outstanding monument with a complex design of windows.
Between 1682 and 1684, De La Salle gave up his canonry and his personal property not, principally, to feed the hungry, but to be more united with the teachers.
If I consider only these exalted motives, I must resign my canonry and devote myself to the care of the schools and to the training of the schoolmasters who direct them.
La Seu Vella site consists of the different buildings which made up the cathedral in its time: the church with its chapels, the cloisters, the bell tower and the canonry.
Refusing a high appointment offered him at the Collège de Navarre, he chose instead to settle in Metz, where his father had obtained a canonry for him.
The year following he preferred him to a canonry of King's College, now Christ Church, Oxford, and about the same time, collated him to a prebend in the church of Sarum.
Examples from Classical Literature
There was an uncle who was Bishop of Grenoble, and a canonry could easily be got for him.
As the head of the canonry of Reichersberg he became an active and rigorous reformer.
Mrs. Gladstone was at the canonry and made herself very pleasant to everybody.
He was condemned to be publicly whipped, and degraded for two years from the honors and emoluments of his canonry.
About the year 1530 he was relieved from his servitude by obtaining a canonry in the cathedral of Florence.
In 1770 he was promoted from a canonry at Christchurch, to the deanery of Canterbury.
Accordingly, he retired to Florence, where he held a canonry in the cathedral.
At the end there are sundry items entered as received from the canonry of teruel, amounting in all to 51ll.
He was suspended and deprived of his canonry but not deprived of his parochial duties.
The collection currently held at the old canonry in Bangor will be transferred to the Bishop's Palace once the building has been renovated.
His living was in Cornwall, but he added to it a canonry at Bristol.
They had discussed the priest's canonry, and the order for the crucifix.
The Butlers finally moved to Winchester in 1882 when George was appointed to a canonry at the Cathedral.
He bequeathed his library of Greek and Latin books to the library of the canonry of Florence Cathedral.
He is grateful for the Canonry, sharing it with his people without whom he could have achieved little.
When he retired he was rewarded with a much better living than any of the under-masters could hope for, and an honorary Canonry.
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