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ˈpresidentship
[See -ship.]
The office or function of a president; the period over which this extends.
c1525L. Stubbs to Wolsey in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. iii. II. 66, I do thank your Grace for my restitucion of the possession of my Presedentship of Magdalen College at Oxford. 1607Sir J. Harington in Nugæ Ant. (1804) II. 253 He went down with the presidentship of Yorke, in the vacancie,..committed to him. 1619in Crt. & Times Jas. I (1849) II. 161 They confirmed Sir Thomas Smith in his presidentship of the Bermudas, or Summer Islands. 1687Lond. Gaz. No. 2299/2 They ordered him forthwith to depart the College,..declaring the Presidentship to be Void. 1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. iii. ii. xxiii. (1852) 475 In..the seventeenth year of his presidentship over Harvard-Colledge. 1711Lond. Gaz. No. 4938/1 The Presidentship of the Council of the Finances. 1779Hist. Eur. in Ann. Reg. 131/1 The appointment of his brother..to the government and presidentship of Madras. 1884Lady Verney in Contemp. Rev. Oct. 552 A leading politician, who is looking forward to the Presidentship. |