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chancellory

chancellory

English

Noun

chancellory (plural chancellories)

  1. Alternative spelling of chancellery
    • 1918, Pierre Souvestre, A Royal Prisoner:
      The hall of the chancellory had been transformed into a cloakroom and there the crowd was thickest.
    • 1915, John Holland Rose, The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.):
      Bismarck's successor in the chancellory, Count Caprivi, set matters in their true light in a speech in the Reichstag shortly after the publication of Bismarck's Reminiscences.
    • 1899, Edward A. Johnson, History of Negro Soldiers in the Spanish-American War, and Other Items of Interest:
      Senor Polo had personally brought the document from the chancellory above." "