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deanship|ˈdiːnʃɪp|
[f. dean1 + -ship.]
1. The office, position, or rank of a dean; the tenure of this office.
1611Cotgr., Doyenné, a Deanerie, or Deaneship. 1761Warton Life Bathurst 214 (T.) Those [chapter-acts] that were made during his deanship. 1827Cobbett Protestant Reform. ii. §47 The Bishopricks, the Parish-livings, the Deanships..are in fact all in their gift. 1881New Eng. Jrnl. Educ. XXIV. 347 Prof. P. J. Williams to the deanship of the Normal department.
2. The personality of a dean: used humorously as a title.
1588Marprel. Epist. (Arb.) 3 May it please you..to ride to Sarum and thanke his Deanship for it. 1729Swift Poems, Grand Question xxxiii, I then shall not value his Deanship a straw. 1812Parr Let. Dec. 12 Wks. (1828) VII. 470 His Deanship perhaps has brought from his escrutoire his old Concio for the Doctorate. |