chaplainshipn.
/ˈtʃaplɪnʃɪp/ a. The office of a chaplain; chaplaincy.
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1536 Act 27 Hen. VIII c. 42 §1 in Enactments Parl. conc. Univ. Oxf. & Cambr. (1869) 13 Dimishippees, Brotherodes, Chaplenshippes.
1645 J. Milton Colasterion 4 To pop into the Bethesda of som Knights Chaplainship.
1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 164 A secular Chaplainship or Capellania was that, which men built and founded on their own Estates, and in their own proper Houses.
1846 T. B. Macaulay in Life & Lett. (1880) II. 181 The Chaplainship of Chelsea Hospital.
b. humorous. As a title: (After lordship, etc.)
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1589 ‘Pasquill of England’ Returne of Pasquill sig. Diiij Seeing you come to his Chaplinship.
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