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nabobship|ˈneɪbɒbʃɪp|
[f. nabob + -ship.]
1. The office or rank of a nabob; the position of being a nabob.
1753Lond. Mag. in Scots Mag. Apr. 197/2 Mahomet was restored to the nabobship of Arcot. 1780Orme Hist. Indostan I. 367 A Moorish dress distinguished likewise with ornaments peculiar to the Nabobship. 1808Edin. Rev. XI. 463 The nabobship of the Carnatic has been vested in the present family for more than a half a century. 1876Grant Hist. India I. xxxii. 168/1 The latter..now succeeded to the nabobship of Oude.
2. The territory over which a nabob exercises jurisdiction; a district governed by a nabob.
1761Lond. Mag. XXX. 183 Every nabob [has] the appointment of all the polygars in his nabobship. 1798Pennant Hindoostan II. 12 These provinces are now annexed to the great nabobship of the Carnatic. 1862Beveridge Hist. India I. iii. ii. 412 Pondicherry..belonged nominally to the nabobship of Arcot. |