advowson
C2CEFR level
98/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
The right of presentation to a vacant ecclesiastical benefice, treated in law as a form of incorporeal property.
The lord of the manor still held the advowson and could nominate the incumbent of the parish church.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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