sultanshipn.
/ˈsʌltənʃɪp/ 1. = sultanate n. 2. rare.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > sovereign ruler or monarch > other independent rulers > [noun] > sultan > position of
sultanship1613
sultanry1622
sultany1639
soldanrie1825
soldanate1878
sultanate1884
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage iii. ii. 197 The Sultanship of the Chalipha.
1779 T. Forrest Voy. New Guinea 218 When he resigned the Sultanship to his brother.
1832 Examiner 505/1 Pleading for the importation of a Turkish Sultanship.
2. The personality of a sultan; his sultanship, applied as a mock-title to a despot or tyrant.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > absolute ruler > [noun]
tyrantc1330
dictatora1593
Caesar1595
absolute monarch1596
imperator1598
voluntar1650
Mogul1653
sultanist1659
sultan1662
Grand Monarque1699
autocrator1718
despot1755
autocrat1762
sultanship1823
monocrat1848
autarch1865
autarkist1938
1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto VIII cix. 165 They fell..Upon his angry Sultanship.
1859 H. Kingsley Recoll. G. Hamlyn xxvii The idea of his having a rival..never entered his Sultanship's head.
1862 M. E. Braddon Lady Audley's Secret I. vii. 112 If all the divinities upon earth were ranged before him, waiting for his sultanship to throw the handkerchief.
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