adeptship
adeptship noun: the role or status of an adept.
Noun
adeptship (countable and uncountable, plural adeptships)
- The role or status of an adept.
- It is, indeed, part of the ritual of the candidate for adeptship into the British mysteries, resembling that for the neophyte into the Osirian, Cabiric or Orphean mysteries.1928, Lewis Spence, Mysteries of Britain, page v. 123
Forms of adeptship
| plural | adeptships |
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Origin of adeptship
From adept + -ship.
Questions about adeptship
- What does adeptship mean?
- Adeptship means the role or status of an adept.
- What part of speech is adeptship?
- Adeptship is a noun.
- What is the plural of adeptship?
- The plural of adeptship is adeptships.
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