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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Advowson \Ad*vow"son\ (?; 277), n. [OE. avoweisoun OF
avo["e]son, fr L. advocatio Cf {Advocation}.] (Eng. Law)
The right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the
church. [Originally, the relation of a patron advocatus or
protector of a benefice, and thus privileged to nominate or
present to it.]
Note: The benefices of the Church of England are in every
case subjects of presentation. They are nearly 12,000
in number; the advowson of more than half of them
belongs to private persons, and of the remainder to the
crown, bishops, deans and chapters, universities, and
colleges. --Amer. Cyc.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
advowson
n : the right in English law of presenting a nominee to a vacant
ecclesiastical benefice
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