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ensiships

ensiships is the plural of ensiship.

Meaning of ensiship

Noun

ensiship (plural ensiships)

  1. (historical, rare) The office or tenure of an ensi.
    • Edmond Sollberger considers some evidence in Sumer of the 3rd Millennium BC notably the reality of the sovereignty of the god Enlil who elects and deposes rulers; a case of a royal judgement overruled; the strange relationship of Urukagina to his predecessor in the ensiship and later colleague, and...1977, University of London, Institute of Archaeology, Bulletin of the Institute of Archaeology, numbers 14-15, page 226

Questions about ensiships

What is ensiships the plural of?
Ensiships is the plural of ensiship.

Words near ensiships in the dictionary

  1. ensilvered
  2. ensilvering
  3. ensilvers
  4. ensis
  5. ensiship
  6. ensiships
  7. ensisternum
  8. ensite
  9. ensitrelvir
  10. ensituximab
  11. enskied

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