Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of making one a denizen, subject, or citizen.

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  • noun The act of making one a denizen or adopted citizen; naturalization.

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  • noun The act of making one a denizen or adopted citizen; naturalization.

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Examples

  • See also the essay on the denization of Luis Gomez, and Rabbi David Aaron's little essay, The Divine Wants You to be Happy, on why being a teacher of Torah is like being a gourmet chef.

    Links 2006

  • Stuarts was attended with the return of the Jews into Great Britain; and that Lord Chancellor Clarendon granted to many of them letters of denization under the great seal.

    Notes and Queries, Number 32, June 8, 1850 Various

  • Lancey, the Huguenot, contended that he had left France before the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and had received denization in

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • At the revocation itself, not less than half a million escaped from bigoted France to Holland, Germany, and England; and to those in the latter country, Charles II., then on the British throne, granted letters of denization under the great seal, and Parliament relieved them from 'importation duties and passport fees.'

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

  • A letter to Solicitor General Heath, stating that the King desires him to prepare grant of denization to Beaumont.

    The Records of the Virginia Company of London 1906

  • Grant to Beaumont of denization, confirming lands and liberty in Virginia as granted by the

    The Records of the Virginia Company of London 1906

  • Reyner Wolfe was a native of Dretunhe (?), in Gelderland, as shown by the letters of denization which he took out on the 2nd January 1533-4.

    A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898 Henry R. Plomer 1901

  • After the Restoration, November 3rd, 1662, he received letters of denization, and a grant for being engineer of the Mint in the Tower of London, and for using his new invention for coining gold and silver with the mill and press, with the fee of L100 per annum (Walpole's "Anecdotes of Painting").] which are very neat, and like the King.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

  • After the Restoration, November 3rd, 1662, he received letters of denization, and a grant for being engineer of the Mint in the Tower of London, and for using his new invention for coining gold and silver with the mill and press, with the fee of L100 per annum (Walpole's "Anecdotes of Painting").] which are very neat, and like the King.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1662 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

  • After the Restoration, November 3rd, 1662, he received letters of denization, and a grant for being engineer of the Mint in the Tower of London, and for using his new invention for coining gold and silver with the mill and press, with the fee of L100 per annum (Walpole's "Anecdotes of Painting").] which are very neat, and like the King.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 19: November/December 1662 Samuel Pepys 1668

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