(UK, ecclesiastical, _, law) The right to present a nominee to a vacant ecclesiastical benefice or church office.
Advowson is the right to appoint the incumbent clergy of a parish, so three advowsons meant three incumbents.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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