presidentship

American  

[prez-i-duhnt-ship] / ˈprɛz ɪ dəntˌʃɪp /

noun

Chiefly British.

1. presidency.

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Etymology

Origin of presidentship

First recorded in 1515–25; president + -ship

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Example Sentences

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presidentship

For a presidentship requireth a whole man; and a bishop cannot be two men. 

From Sermons on the Card by Henry Morley

A committee was formed, under the presidentship of Mr. John Symons, a member of the Town Council, and a man of untiring energy and philanthropic disposition.

From The Hero of the Humber or the History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe by Henry Woodcock

Barbé-Marbois had given him, with the same eagerness, the presidentship of the elder council.

From History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 by M. (François-Auguste-Marie-Alexis) Mignet

I had the honour of being on the committee under the presidentship of the Lord Mayor of London, for the victualling of Paris after her surrender.

From The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing by John Ruskin

"Mr. Oakes thus being transplanted into the better world the presidentship was immediately tendered unto Mr. Increase Mather."

From Initial Studies in American Letters by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

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