shepherdshipn.
rare.
The office or position of a shepherd.
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1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke xxiv. 25–29. 90 His shepherdship leat an other bodye take.
1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iii. 63 While he [sc. Moses] past his sacred Prentiship (In Wildernes) of th' Hebrues Shephardship.
1874 E. W. Benson Let. in A. C. Benson Life of E. W. Benson (1899) I. 388 It's the Buckles that ruins the Colonial Church... Men taking Shepherdships for Buckles and Loops.
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