noun
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The state of being incumbent.
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An obligation or duty
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A tenure
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Benefice, lucrative position or possession
Examples of incumbency in a Sentence
In my first incumbency I had another of Fowler's buildings among the churches in my charge.
For a few months he was usher at a boarding school at Blackheath, but on the 26th of September 1760 he became perpetual curate of New Brentford, the incumbency of which his father had purchased for him, and he retained its scanty profits until 1773.
He left his incumbency of Savannah to a lay delegate and the commissary's court at Charleston suspended him for ceremonial irregularities.
The episcopal emoluments arise from the mensal parishes, the incumbency of which is retained by the bishops, from licences and from an annual contribution, varying in amount, paid by the clergy of the diocese.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the gift of Christ college, Oxford, and present incumbency of the Rev. Charles Lacy.
That's what the PlayStation brings to the table in terms of incumbency.
The incumbency of Trinity Chapel was held by the famous preacher Frederick William Robertson (1847-18J3).
Educated at Tiverton and Winchester, he graduated at Oxford (Christ Church) in 1821, and after holding an incumbency in Coventry, 1829-1837, and in Leeds, 1837-1859, was nominated dean of Chichester by Lord Derby.
Nor was he assailed in the incumbency of St.