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beadleship

beadleship noun: the office or jurisdiction of a beadle.

Noun

beadleship (usually uncountable, plural beadleships)

  1. (usually) The office or jurisdiction of a beadle.
    • He was degraded in their eyes; he had lost caste and station before the very paupers; he had fallen from all the height and pomp of beadleship to the lowest depth of the most snubbed hen-peckery.1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], “In Which the Reader, if He or She Resort to the Fifth Chapter of This Second Book Will Perceive a Contrast Not Uncommon in Matrimonial Cases”, in Oliver...

Forms of beadleship

pluralbeadleships

Origin of beadleship

From beadle + -ship.

Questions about beadleship

What does beadleship mean?
Beadleship means the office or jurisdiction of a beadle.
What part of speech is beadleship?
Beadleship is a noun.
What is the plural of beadleship?
The plural of beadleship is beadleships.

Words near beadleship in the dictionary

  1. beadleism
  2. beadleries
  3. beadlery
  4. beadles
  5. Beadleses
  6. beadleship
  7. beadless
  8. beadlet
  9. beadlets
  10. beadlike
  11. beadmaker

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