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burghership

burghership noun: the state of being a burgher; citizenship.

Noun

burghership (uncountable)

  1. The state of being a burgher; citizenship.
    • "It conferred on all Hottentots and other free persons of colour lawfully residing in the Colony, the right to become burghers, and to exercise and enjoy all the privileges of burghership.1900, Josephine Elizabeth Butler, Native Races and the War
    • In no case does citizenship, or burghership, appear to rest upon the basis of a real or assumed community of descent from a single real or mythical progenitor.1902, John Fiske, “The Federal Unioin”, in Harpers
  2. The rights and privileges of a burgher; burgess-ship.

Examples of burghership in a sentence

  • No inhabitant of the city who had not enrolled himself as a craftsman in one of the guilds could exercise any function of burghership.1914, John Addington Symonds, Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series:
  • "All coloured people are excluded from this provision, and (in accordance with the Grondwet) they may never be given or granted rights of burghership...."1921, Various, The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921:

Origin of burghership

From burgher + -ship.

Questions about burghership

What does burghership mean?
Burghership means the state of being a burgher; citizenship.
How do you use burghership in a sentence?
No inhabitant of the city who had not enrolled himself as a craftsman in one of the guilds could exercise any function of burghership.
What part of speech is burghership?
Burghership is a noun.

Words near burghership in the dictionary

  1. burgherhood
  2. burgherly
  3. burghermaster
  4. burghermasters
  5. burghers
  6. burghership
  7. Burghill
  8. burghmaster
  9. burghmasters
  10. burghmote
  11. burghmotes

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