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grandmastership

grandmastership noun: the factor of being a grandmaster; the status of a grandmaster, possessing notably superior mastery, experience and overall power, not merely physical and bodily and higher ranking.

Noun

grandmastership (countable and uncountable, plural grandmasterships)

  1. The factor of being a grandmaster; the status of a grandmaster, possessing notably superior mastery, experience and overall power, not merely physical and bodily and higher ranking.
    • At last the danger became so imminent that it could be no longer concealed. Ferdinand received the intimation with a decent fortitude; and touched perhaps with compunction at the imjustice which he had done his grandson, or influenced by the honest remonstrances of Carvajal, Zapara, and Vargas, his...1818, William Robertson, History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles, pages 25-26
    • Chan Wah Soon was a money changer with a shop next door to Leung Jun;s He was a large, strong man, who admired his Wing Chun ability. When Leung Jun chose to keep his art within his family and not take any outside students, Chan Wah Soon resorted to spying on Leung Jun's daily teachings to his...1983, William Cheung, Wing Chun Bil Lee, the Deadly Art of Thrusting Fingers, Unique Publications, →ISBN, pages 12-13

Examples of grandmastership in a sentence

  • However, Leung Jun continued to teach only the modified version to change because he feared that after his own death, Chan would dispute the Wing Chun grandmastership with his sons.1983, William Cheung, Wing Chun Bil Lee, the Deadly Art of Thrusting Fingers, Unique Publications, →ISBN, pages 12-13:
  • The correct phrasing to adopt on such an occasion is: ‘Your grandmastership, might I be so bold at this juncture of the contest to beg to suggest in all humility, the halving of the point?’1995, William Roland Hartston, Soft Pawn, Cadogan, →ISBN, page 42:

Forms of grandmastership

pluralgrandmasterships

Origin of grandmastership

From grandmaster + -ship.

Questions about grandmastership

What does grandmastership mean?
Grandmastership means the factor of being a grandmaster; the status of a grandmaster, possessing notably superior mastery, experience and overall power, not merely physical and bodily and higher ranking.
How do you use grandmastership in a sentence?
However, Leung Jun continued to teach only the modified version to change because he feared that after his own death, Chan would dispute the Wing Chun grandmastership with his sons.
What part of speech is grandmastership?
Grandmastership is a noun.
What is the plural of grandmastership?
The plural of grandmastership is grandmasterships.

Words near grandmastership in the dictionary

  1. grandmammies
  2. grandmammy
  3. grandmas
  4. grandmaster
  5. grandmasters
  6. grandmastership
  7. grandmasterships
  8. grandmaternal
  9. grandmaternity
  10. grandmaw
  11. grandmaws

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