Etymology
Origin of mastership
late Middle English word dating back to 1375–1425; master, -ship
Example Sentences
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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
Heyne’s recommendation procured for him an assistant mastership in the G�ttingen gymnasium in 1797.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various
Since the elector by his vote subjects his fellow-citizens, it may be, to perilous mastership, Mill inferred every man had a right to know from whose hand came the blessing or the blow.
From Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Holyoake, George Jacob
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