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English
Noun
chancelry (plural chancelries)
- Alternative form of chancellery
1890, Julia Pardoe, The Life of Marie de Medicis, Vol. 1 (of 3):By Henri III he was successively appointed governor of the chancelry of Burgundy, councillor of the provincial Parliament, and subsequently president.
1914, Kuno Francke (Editor-in-Chief), The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. III:While he was working at it there arrived one day--it was in November, 1802--a patent of nobility from the chancelry of the Holy Roman Empire.
1929, Various, Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol. 5:To this it is to be added that the majority of the little princes are not disposed to spend upon their federal diplomacy the amount that would be required for a regular and organized chancelry and correspondence; and that if Herr von Holzhausen, who after the departure of Baron von Strombeck obtained the place as the lowest asker, should resign from their service, they would hardly be able, with the means at their disposal, to secure so imposing a representative as this prosperous gentleman, who is decorated with sundry grand-crosses and the title of privy councillor, and is a member of the oldest patrician family of Frankfort.