governourship
governourship is the obsolete spelling of governorship.
Meaning of governorship
Noun
governorship (countable and uncountable, plural governorships)
- The office or term of a governor; the state or condition of being a governor.
- He conducted what he calls “a separate but equal kind of governorship.”1983 January 8, Howell Raines, “Politics: Hollings Hacks Away at His Rivals”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015
Forms of governourship
| plural | governourships |
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Origin of governourship
From governour + -ship.
Questions about governourship
- What is governourship the obsolete spelling of?
- Governourship is the obsolete spelling of governorship.
Words near governourship in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: governourship (page history and authors); governorship (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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