provost
noun
a person appointed to superintend or preside.
provostship
-
a word derived from
provost.
Example Sentences
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When he left the Yale faculty he had accepted the provostship of Avon Old Farms School, experimental venture in secondary education.
From Time Magazine Archive
No one in trade was considered good enough for the provostship.
From Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie by John Charles Van Dyke
All the seigniorial courts, say the registers, are infested with a crowd of officials of every description, seigniorial sergeants, mounted and unmounted officers, keepers of the provostship of the funds, guards of the constabulary.
From The Ancient Regime by John Durand
Ah! you are scoffing at the provostship, wretch!
From Notre-Dame De Paris by Isabel Florence Hapgood
Declining the provostship offered him by the Town Council, he retired a few years since to the village of Helensburgh, where he continues to reside.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Charles Rogers
