Abbacy vs Abbey - What's the difference?
abbacy | abbey |
The dignity, estate, term, or jurisdiction of an abbot or abbess.
The office or dominion of an abbot or abbess.
A monastery or society of people, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy, which is headed by an abbot or abbess; also, the monastic building or buildings.
The church of a monastery.
(UK) A residence that was previously an abbatial building.
(capitalized) In London, the Abbey is short for Westminster Abbey, and in Scotland, the precincts of the Abbey of Holyrood.
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As a noun abbacy
is the dignity, estate, term, or jurisdiction of an abbot or abbess .As a proper noun abbey is
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(en noun)- From 1199 to 1203 William Punchard was the abbot of the abbey of Rievaulx, which was part of the Cistercian order of monks.