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Seigneurial
Seigneurial meaning
Of or relating to a seigneur or to seigneurialism. | Befitting a seigneur.
Example sentences (3)
Harvest taxes were ended, such as the tithe and seigneurial dues, much to the relief of the peasants.
However they completely lost all their old seigneurial rights to the rest of the farmland, and the peasants no longer were under their control.
The new ministry were committed to secularize the Clergy reserves in Canada West and to abolish seigneurial tenure in Canada East.