stadholdershipn.
1. The office or dignity of a stadholder.
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1668 London Gaz. No. 238/3 The Deputies from the States General sent into Vriesland about the business of the Stateholdership.
1673 H. Stubbe Further Iustification War against Netherlands To Rdr. 7 The Election of Great Maurice to the said Stateholdership was purely a provincial act.
a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 273 To try what offices the King would do in order to his advancement to the Stadtholdership.
1723 London Gaz. No. 6153/1 The Stadtholdership of that Province.
1837 Foreign Q. Rev. XIX. 173 The maintenance of the stadtholdership in the Netherlands.
1913 J. Willcock Life Sir H. Vane xii. 203 During the time of his minority the Statthaltership was in abeyance.
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1811 J. Pinkerton Mod. Geogr. (ed. 3) 142 Of these twenty-three provinces [of Russia], forty-two stadtholderships were formed.
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