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friarship

friarship noun: the state, personality, or character of a friar.

Noun

friarship (countable and uncountable, plural friarships)

  1. The state, personality, or character of a friar.
    • What was my astonishment, when I began to examine my new domicile, to find that my amusing acquaintance conjoined to his friarship the respectable trades of itinerant carpenter and chandler.1826, Frederick Reynolds, The Life and Times of Frederick Reynolds
  2. A compellation for a friar.
    • his friarship

Forms of friarship

pluralfriarships

Origin of friarship

From friar + -ship. Piecewise doublet of brothership and palship.

Questions about friarship

What does friarship mean?
Friarship means the state, personality, or character of a friar.
What part of speech is friarship?
Friarship is a noun.
What is the plural of friarship?
The plural of friarship is friarships.

Words near friarship in the dictionary

  1. friarly
  2. friars
  3. Friars Minor
  4. Friars Preachers
  5. friars' omelettes
  6. friarship
  7. friarships
  8. Friarton
  9. friary
  10. Frias
  11. Friases

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