Speakershipn.
1. The office of Speaker in a legislative or other assembly.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > [noun] > president or chairperson of > office of
presidence1606
presidency1608
prolocutorshipa1650
Speakership1653
chair1659
presidentship1711
chairpersonship1982
1653 Let. in S. Jeake Charters Cinque Ports (1728) 91 Whereas by septennary Revolution the Speakership of the Ports is now devolved upon us.
1803 G. Rose Diaries (1860) II. 35 Unless he could be prevailed with to take the Speakership of the House of Lords, separated from the Great Seal.
1844 J. H. Jesse G. Selwyn & his Contemp. IV. 379 Charles Wolfran Cornwall, Esq., whose appointment to the Speakership of the House of Commons is mentioned..in this letter.
1883 Harper's Mag. Feb. 371/1 It was an easy and natural promotion to the Speakership of the Imperial Diet.
2. Oratory.
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the mind > language > speech > speech-making > rhetoric > [noun]
rhetoricc1330
pronunciation?a1439
rhetory?a1500
well-speaking1511
oratorya1522
rhetorism1569
declaiming1577
pronouncec1600
acroama1603
eloquence1623
rhetoricalness1670
hypocritic1776
union1834
Speakership1887
oracy1965
1887 G. Saintsbury Manchester 149 There was room for all kinds of Speakership in the great campaign of the League.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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