emperorshipn.
/ˈɛmp(ə)rəʃɪp/, U.S. /ˈɛmp(ə)rərˌʃɪp/ The office or position of emperor; the reign of an emperor.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > sovereign ruler or monarch > emperor > [noun] > position or dignity of
emperyc1325
empirea1450
emperorship1574
imperiousness1574
empiredoma1626
imperialness1677
Kaisership1855
Kaiserdom1871
Kaiserate1881
1574 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Job xlviii. 224/1 Therfore it seemed to him [sc. Augustus] that the Emperourship fell to him as it were in his dreame [Fr. Il luy semble donc qu'il deuienne Empereur comme par songe].
1577 T. Rogers tr. S. à Geveren Of Ende of World 23/1 Which ambiciously sought the Emperourship of al Italy.
1658 H. W. tr. E. de Refuge Accomplish'd Courtier v. 12 His Companion was made President of the Pretorian Bands,..which Dignity was second to the Emperorship onely.
1770 New & Compl. Hist. Essex I. 21 The Romans however,..in the emperorship of Valentine the younger, recalled a great part of their troops from Britain.
1794 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1956) I. 122 Can Earldoms or Emperorships boast so huge an Inequality?
1805 Monthly Mag. 20 147 Between the battle of Actium and the acceptance of the emperorship.
1882 Athenæum 25 Feb. 247 The last dozen years of his emperorship.
1922 P. Reinsch Amer. Diplomat in China ii. xv. 180 Yuan Shih-kai had long been in training for the emperorship.
1993 I. Asimov Forward Foundation 150 And you want to see the emperorship abolished?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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