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justiceship|ˈdʒʌstɪsʃɪp|
[f. justice n. + -ship.]
The office or dignity of a justice or judge; the functions of a justice, or their discharge. Similarly Chief Justiceship.
1542–3Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII, c. 26 §13 Any office of Stewardeshipps Chamberlaineshipps Chancellourshipps or Iusticeshipps. a1645Habington Surv. Worc. in Worc. Hist. Soc. Proc. III. 428 His offyce of Cheyfe-Justiceshyp of the Marches of Wales. 1749Fielding Tom Jones vii. ix, Desiring her brother to execute justiceship (for it was indeed a syllable more than justice) on the wench. 1793G. Read in Life & Corr. (1870) 547, I have at length determined to accept of the chief justiceship of the supreme court [of Delaware]. 1897Westm. Gaz. 30 Sept. 8/1 The doyen of English judges..who retired from a Justiceship of the Queen's Bench in 1890.
b. With poss. adj. as a title for a justice.
1692Vindication 12 Can any one..believe that His Justiceship..was never so imposed on? 1736T. Lediard Life Marlborough I. 58 His exquisite Justice-ship employ'd..the whole Wisdom of the Nation, to undo his vile Undoings. |