priorate
Example Sentences
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After he became provincial, he left the islands with the priorate of Ibabay for that of Tigbauan.
Just before his assumption of the priorate, however, a new complication had arisen.
From Among My Books Second Series by James Russell Lowell
Our father Fray Vicente chose him as his associate, and immediately gave him the priorate of Agonoy.
It is a priorate and has a vote, and one or two religious generally live there.
Another was established in Nalbacán, a priorate with a vote, although it has been greatly exhausted by the burning of the church and convent.