burghership
- a word derived from burgher.
Example Sentences
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Under this mild phrase, to admonish, was concealed a cruel exercise of tyranny—it meant to warn a man that he was suspected of treason, and that he had better relinquish the exercise of his burghership.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes
It conferred on all Hottentots and other free persons of colour lawfully residing in the Colony, the right to become burghers, and to exercise and enjoy all the privileges of burghership.
From Native Races and the War by Butler, Josephine E. (Josephine Elizabeth Grey)
The popular assembly was enlarged, and public harmony was secured; but Athenian burghership still remained a privilege which could not be acquired by the native of any other city.
From American Political Ideas Viewed from the Standpoint of Universal History by Fiske, John
The men received full burghership as a rule soon after arrival, exempt from the formalities and probation prescribed by law.
From Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (2nd ed.) The Conspiracy of the 19th Century Unmasked by Thomas, C. H.
There burghership, with its political and social rights and duties, had its theoretical basis in descent from a common ancestor, or from a small group of closely-related common ancestors.
From American Political Ideas Viewed from the Standpoint of Universal History by Fiske, John
