precentor
noun
a person who leads a church choir or congregation in singing.
precentorship
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a word derived from
precentor.
Example Sentences
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"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
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
"It was a verra speerited thing to do, at ony rate, to gie up your precentorship," said Fergusson, whose wife kept the wash-house on the Isle, and who lived on his wife's makings.
From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
"It will cost me the precentorship," answered he slowly, "but I hadn't given a thought to that."
From Hetty Wesley by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
