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senatorship

American  
[sen-uh-ter-ship] / ˈsɛn ə tərˌʃɪp /

noun

senatorships plural
  1. the position or tenure of a senator; the fact or state of being a senator.


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Freshly out of uniform, with a bright Army record behind him, big, tough Mr. Browning might run either for the senatorship or for the governorship.

From Time Magazine Archive

John A. Earl, candidate for a state senatorship, guarded against hocus-pocus at the drawing for positions on the primary ballot by taking along a magician as a watcher.

From Time Magazine Archive

For the senatorship, he wanted a man with a war record to match Gordon Browning's.

From Time Magazine Archive

He soon got serious, and the Jaycees recently awarded him the organization's highest individual honor, an "international senatorship."

From Time Magazine Archive

LINCOLN!!! was the cry everywhere, whenever the senatorship was alluded to.

From Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday A Comprehensive View of Lincoln as Given in the Most Noteworthy Essays, Orations and Poems, in Fiction and in Lincoln's Own Writings by Schauffler, Robert Haven

Of the other candidates for the senatorships on that ticket, four were men and one a woman.

From Woman and the Republic — a Survey of the Woman-Suffrage Movement in the United States and a Discussion of the Claims and Arguments of Its Foremost Advocates by Johnson, Helen Kendrick

Secretly and decorously our senatorships and the ancient orders of our knighthood are assigned.

From Stand Up, Ye Dead by Maclean, Norman

There was a vacancy in one of the United States senatorships from Mississippi, and Davis was appointed to fill it.

From The Brothers' War by Reed, John Calvin

United States senatorships bother them not a whit.

From The New Education A Review of Progressive Educational Movements of the Day (1915) by Nearing, Scott

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