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sultanship|ˈsʌltənʃɪp|
[Formed as prec. + -ship.]
1. = sultanate 2. rare.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage iii. ii. 197 The Sultanship of the Chalipha. 1779Forrest Voy. N. Guinea 218 When he resigned the Sultanship to his brother. 1832Examiner 505/1 Pleading for the importation of a Turkish Sultanship.
2. The personality of a sultan; his sultanship, applied as a mock-title to a despot or tyrant.
1822Byron Juan viii. cix, They fell..Upon his angry sultanship. 1859H. Kingsley G. Hamlyn xxvii, The idea of his having a rival..never entered his Sultanship's head. 1862M. E. Braddon Lady Audley vii, If all the divinities upon earth were ranged before him, waiting for his sultanship to throw the handkerchief. |