Etymology
Origin of mastership
late Middle English word dating back to 1375–1425; see origin at master, -ship
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In 1972, Russell was still lionized for his Senate mastership and his leadership of the Senate Armed Services Committee during the Cold War.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 3, 2022
Snow’s “The Masters” makes heavy weather of an election to fill the vacant mastership of a college at Cambridge University.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 22, 2016
The November issue contains a lengthy report on canine activity under the mastership of Presidents since 1951.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ibsen's rhymes are stamped by his mastership of form, and move in shifting stanzas according to the requirements of the situation and the emotion they are intended to create.
From Ludvig Holberg, The Founder of Norwegian Literature and an Oxford Student by Simon Christian Hammer
He founded a scholarship in Jesus College, Oxford, to be held by one who has been educated at Ruthin School, where he was the second who held the mastership after its foundation by Dean Goodman.
From A Biographical Sketch of some of the Most Eminent Individuals which the Principality of Wales has produced since the Reformation by Robert Williams
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