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noun
A legal provision by which clergymen (and, later, anybody who could read) could claim that they were outside the jurisdiction of the secular courts and be tried instead in an ecclesiastical court under canon law.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, historical, uncountable
Topics: law
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
sanction by a religious rite
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sanction
History
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