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n. The right in English ecclesiastical law of presentation to a vacant benefice.

n. The right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the church.

n. The right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the church. [Originally, the relation of a patron (advocatus) or protector of a benefice, and thus privileged to nominate or present to it.]

n. Originally, the obligation to defend an ecclesiastical office or a religious house. See advocate of the church, under advocate.

n. In English law, the right of presentation to a vacant benefice.

n. the right in English law of presenting a nominee to a vacant ecclesiastical benefice

"a hill, rose an old ruin with one tower left, and this, with half the country round it, had once belonged to the clergyman's family; but all had been sold, -- all gone piece by piece, you see, my dear, except the presentation to the living (what they call the advowson was sold too), which had been secured to the last of the family."

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