precentorship

• a word derived from precentor.
  precentor

  noun

  a person who leads a church choir or congregation in singing.

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precentorship

When Ridley became bishop of London, he made Grindal one of his chaplains and gave him the precentorship of St Paul’s.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various

"He is at Lincoln; he has gone to try for the precentorship of the cathedral," Hetty announced.

From Hetty Wesley by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

I am very anxious about the precentorship: the archdeacon thinks it must go with the wardenship; I think not, and, that, having it, I cannot be ousted.

From The Warden by Anthony Trollope

He did not use it, as he is serving the precentorship ad interim, as I have said above.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 25 of 55 1635-36 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by James Alexander Robertson

Would he have to abdicate his precentorship, as he had his wardenship, and to give up chanting, as he had given up his twelve old bedesmen?

From Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope

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