provost
noun
a person appointed to superintend or preside.
provostship
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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
In 1878 an advance was made by the institution of district or provostship synods, and in February, 1880, the first General Synod was held at Rendsburg.
From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by J. H. Kurtz
Was it a vague presentiment of the three hundred and seventy livres, sixteen sous, eight farthings, which the future King Charles VII. was to cut off from the provostship in the following year?
From Notre-Dame De Paris by Isabel Florence Hapgood
The town of Ellwangen, which grew up round the abbey and received the status of a town about the middle of the 14th century, was until 1803 the capital of the provostship.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various
The Maison aux Piliers reverted to the crown, the provostship of the merchants, and all the privileges of the Parisians, were suppressed, and the hateful taxes reimposed.
From The Story of Paris by Katherine Kimball
