attorney
noun
a lawyer; attorney-at-law.
attorneyship
-
a word derived from
attorney.
Example Sentences
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To the amazement of many an observer, Tammany also won the New York county district attorneyship for William Copeland Dodge, an obscure lower court judge.
From Time Magazine Archive
When Stennis went down to the White House to push a friend for a U.S. attorneyship, Harry Truman didn't even ask him, Stennis reported, how he intended to vote on Taft-Hartley.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lincoln, at his first sight of Douglas, during the contest with Hardin for the attorneyship, pronounced him "the least man he ever saw."
From Stephen Arnold Douglas by William Garrott Brown
It was while Kent's head was deepest in the flood of reorganization that a letter came from one Blashfield Hunnicott, his successor in the local attorneyship at Gaston, asking for instructions in the Varnum matter.
From The Grafters by Francis Lynde
Return to Table of Contents "Marriage is a matter of more worth Than to be dealt in by attorneyship."
From The Curious Case of Lady Purbeck A Scandal of the XVIIth Century by Thomas Longueville
