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What is an abbacy?

What is an abbacy? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The dignity, estate, term, or jurisdiction of an abbot or abbess. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
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During his abbacy, he kept the Buckfast community abreast of changes in the outside world.
Falling into disgrace at court, he was banished to the abbacy of Bonport.
King Edgar in 968 restored it, and appointed Sydemann to the abbacy, as it then became.
He refused the archbishopric of Naples and the abbacy of Monte Cassino.
Robert Ramsey succeeded to the abbacy in 1346, but of him nothing particular is recorded.
When Malachy secured possession of the see he remained long enough in Armagh to establish himself in the abbacy.

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