keepership
- a word derived from keeper.
Example Sentences
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In 1866 the Ray Society reprinted, under the editorship of his friend and successor in the keepership of the Botanical Department of the British Museum, J.J.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various
His father then proposed that he should take the keepership of the royal domains, and marry Marie d'Hericart, the daughter of his friend.
From Paris: With Pen and Pencil Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business by Bartlett, David W.
In undertaking this interference it is possible that Parliament exceeded its province, and one is glad that it has long since ceased to claim the keepership of the People's Conscience.
From Books Condemned to be Burnt by Farrer, James Anson
Petition of Increased Collins, for restoration to the keepership of Mote’s Bulwark, Dover.”—C.
From Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature by Bardsley, Charles W.
Henry VIII. took away the keepership of the great Beam from the City, but afterwards restored it.
From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter
