chaplaincyn.
The office or position of a chaplain; = the earlier chaplainship n.
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a1745 J. Swift Lett. (T.) The chaplaincy was refused to me, and given to Dr. Lambert.
1821 T. D. Fosbroke Compan. Wye Tour: Ariconensia 183 I..was offered a Chaplaincy in the Forces.
1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. I. 291 The promotion of Latimer to a royal chaplaincy.
1878 Clergy List 414 Foreign Chaplaincies..are under the superintendence of the Bishop of London.
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