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headship|ˈhɛdʃɪp|
[f. head n.1 + -ship.]
The position or office of head, chief, principal, or supreme governor; chiefship, leadership; the first place or position; supremacy, primacy.
1582Bentley Mon. Matrones iii. 272 Knocke Sisera of Roome in the temples of his usurped headship. 1654Gataker Disc. Apol. 54 Hedship of one of the principal Colledges. 1660R. Coke Power & Subj. 73 Henry the Eighth, (who being of all mortal men the most unfit for a Churchman, ascribed to himself the Headship of the Church). 1736Neal Hist. Purit. III. 342 As to the Supremacy, he thinks such an Headship as the Kings of England claim..is not to be justified. 1861Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. xiv, The prize is the headship of the river. 1870Rogers Hist. Gleanings Ser. ii. 113 The headship of a college is the best prize which the fellows of the society have to bestow. 1886Ruskin Præterita I. vii. 209 Keeping..the headship of her class [in school]. |