seershipn.
/ˈsɪəʃɪp/, U.S. /ˈsɪrˌʃɪp/ 1. With possessive adjective (as your seership, etc.): a (mock) title of respect for a seer or prophet. rare.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > inspired prophecy > [noun] > a prophet or seer > mock title of address to
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1784 New Spectator No. 9. 6/1 Which [certain phrases], therefore, we request your Seership to explain in such a manner as that we may give an account thereof.
2016 A. Van Young Shadows in Summerland 158 I am come to you tonight by leave of His Seership, the Reverend Davis.
2. The art or practice of being a seer; skill or ability in prophecy or clairvoyance.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > inspired prophecy > [noun] > art or power of
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1827 Weekly Times 30 Sept. It does not require much political seership to discover that..Greece might not be the only land of fond recollections added to the territory of freedom.
1835 C. M. Sedgwick Linwoods I. i. 17 Isabella was nettled at Herbert's open contempt of Effie's seership.
1881 J. G. Holland in Scribner's Monthly 22 142 Would these men in any way distinguish seership and prophecy from imagination.
1946 Times Lit. Suppl. 28 Sept. 461/ With all respect to Herr Broch's poetic seership, we may take leave..to doubt it.
2015 Deseret Morning News (Salt Lake City) (Nexis) 19 July His fervent testimony and his unusual gift of seership were an inspiring example to all of us.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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