preachershipn.
/ˈpriːtʃəʃɪp/, U.S. /ˈpritʃərˌʃɪp/ 1. The office or position of a preacher.
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a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) i. 23 By occasion of the publick Preachership of St. Edmunds Bury, then offered me upon good conditions.
1757 Bp. W. Warburton Lett. (1809) cxvi. 259 You have seen by the papers the disposition of the preachership to Dr. Ross.
1799 Catal. Living Eng. Authors I. 27 He was made chaplain to the asylum in 1797, when that office was separated from the preachership.
1819 R. Heber Let. 17 May in A. Heber Life R. Heber (1830) I. xvi. 505 I have been lately making a push for the preachership of Lincoln's Inn.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xiv. 459 Jeremy Collier, who was turned out of the preachership of the Rolls, was a man of a much higher order.
1900 Westm. Gaz. 27 Nov. 12/1 The Preachership has been held by many distinguished men in the past.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 180/2 In 1618 he held the preachership at St. Gregory's, under St. Paul's Cathedral.
1940 Times 17 Jan. 11/4 He had resigned the preachership when advanced to the deanery.
2003 Church Times 19 Dec. 31/5 His seven sons were rewarded by their doting father with no fewer than 16 rectories, vicarages and chapelries, besides preacherships and cathedral dignities.
2. With possessive adjective. Used as a mock title. rare.
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1772 T. Nugent tr. J. F. de Isla Hist. Friar Gerund I. 483 What does his Preachership mean?
1824 J. W. Carlyle Let. 20 May in Coll. Lett. T. & J. W. Carlyle (1970) III. 69 What an idiot I was ever to think that man so estimable—but I am done with his Preachership now & for ever.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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