eldership
- a word derived from elder.
Example Sentences
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"Dr Mawhinney's comments ignore the fact that it has been the policy of the Presbyterian Church to ordain women to eldership for almost a century, and to the ministry for exactly fifty years," it continued.
From BBC • Mar. 2, 2023
It was a day of thaw, nothing to be heard from a distance but the swish of curling-stones through 144 water on Rashie-bog, where the match for the eldership was going on.
From The Little Minister by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)
It was concerning this business that Taras very nearly lost his eldership by reason of a word of sensible advice.
From For the Right by Franzos, Karl Emil
SESSION, s. the consistory, or parochial eldership in Scotland.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. by Leighton, Alexander
They who were convicted of such offences, were sometimes rebuked in private by an elder, and at other times by the minister in the presence of the eldership.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh
