priorate
Example Sentences
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After he became provincial, he left the islands with the priorate of Ibabay for that of Tigbauan.
This mission, then, was first in our charge, and at the time of the pirate Limahon’s descent upon Manila, that island was a priorate.
Just before his assumption of the priorate, however, a new complication had arisen.
From Among My Books Second Series by James Russell Lowell
A priorate was established in Candón, an important priorate of that province and the best, although without a vote.
It is a priorate and has a vote.