Definition of "provostry" [provostry]

• Provostship; the office of provost or chief magistrate. (noun)
• A district or town under the jurisdiction of a provost, or an ecclesiastical or monastic foundation of which a provost is the head. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The effort was powerful, strenuous, desperate, and the cords and straps were strained to their utmost tension; but the seasoned bonds of the provostry held."
• "You are provost-marshal, and have the men of your provostry; you will take them."
• "“To Adam Tenon, assistant keeper of the seals of the provostry of Paris, for the silver, workmanship, and engraving of the said seals which have had to be renewed, inasmuch as the former ones, being old and worn out, could no longer be used, twelve livres parisis."