| 单词 | freemanship |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˈfreemanship ˈfreemanship n. the position or status of a freeman (sense 2), with its rights and privileges. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > [noun] > freeman or not slave > position of freemanship1576 society > law > legal right > right of specific class, person, or place > [noun] > one possessing freedom of a city or company > status of freeman freemanship1576 1576 T. Hill Moste Pleasaunte Arte Interpretacion of Dreames (new ed.) sig. Fv He hath atteyned three names for one as two of the names to come, by his freemanship. 1827 J. B. Felt Ann. Salem 532 In 1646, he was for a more lenient policy, as to the Anabaptists and for greater liberty, as to terms of freemanship. 1873 W. McDowall Hist. Dumfries xxviii. 315 He had to serve other three years..before he could aspire to freemanship. 1914 W. H. Dawson Munic. Life & Govt. Germany iii. 64 Occasionally the freemanship of a town is conferred on residents and others who have distinguished themselves by local enterprise or public work. 1995 Daily Tel. 25 Sept. 7/6 Today the benefits of Freemanship are largely notional, often granting holders such dubious privileges as keeping their swine on the common land or walking the town streets with sword unsheathed. < as lemmas |
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