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ˈresidentship
[f. resident n.1 + -ship.]
1. The office or post of a Resident.
1583T. Stocker Civ. Warres Lowe C. iv. 5 b, All..ecclesiasticall parsons whose Abbaies, Monasteries, Foundations, and Residentships..lye without the Countries of Holland and Zealand. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. II. 643 He, loving Solitude, declined..the Residentship at London for the City of Hamburgh. 1710Shaftesbury Charac. (1737) III. Misc. v. iii. 337 If there be any such Residentship or Agentship now establish'd; 'tis not immediately from God himself. 1794Burke Sp. agst. W. Hastings Wks. XV. 387 When first the forced loan was levied upon them, under his residentship. 1835Fraser's Mag. XI. 251 The prebends of Westminster are good; so are the residentships of St. Paul's. 1890Daily News 21 June 5/6 The Residentship at Hyderabad, the ‘blue ribbon’ of the Indian political service.
2. The district under the control of a Resident.
1805tr. Lafontaine's Hermann & Emilia IV. 44, I..entreated you to confer upon me an employment in the residentship. |