superiorshipn.

1587 J. Bridges Def. Govt. Church of Eng. v. 450 Do not those places precisely forbid, euery Mastership & Lordship, or superiorship of authority & title of dignity & honor, among the ministers of the word & sacraments.

1624 E. Forset Def. Right of Kings 75 Their acknowledgement of the Popes superiorship over the King, and that in such a degree as may indure no limiting.

1710 D. Manley Mem. Europe I. iii. 299 How do you think we agree about the Point of Superiorship?

1831 Athenaeum 11 June 380/3 He stands alone; and it is quite as desponding a task to explain his peculiarities of superior-ship to other violinists.

1851 Calcutta Rev. 15 34 If..the Russians..refrain from open attack..for a few years, and use the interval in marking their game among those intermediate tribes, whose political superiorship they have been gradually assuming.

1885 Dict. National Biogr. II. 88/1 In 1653..the Scotch secular clergy were freed from the jurisdiction of the English prelates and jesuit superiorship.

1919 J. P. Conroy Talks to Parents 83 In the order of superiorship, however, Arthur was an easy first, then Sadie, then Lou, then Mrs. Brittletop, and a bad last came Mr. Brittletop.

1649 J. Goodwin Ὑβριστοδίκαι: Obstructours of Justice 31 If their Superiours joyning in any act of impietie with their inferiours, lose the honour and dignities of their Superiorship, and render themselves vile and low, as these their Inferiours, who partake in the same impietie with them.

1674 P. Walsh Irish Remonstr. i. ii. 582 Deprive them of their respective local Superiourships, Guardianships, or other offices.

1736 Present State Republick Lett. 17 172 During the Superiorship above-mentioned, he became acquainted with Mr. Bossuet.

1787 C. Smith Romance Real Life II. 196 An order to remove Louisa d'Antail from the superiorship of Lagny.

1824 Museum Foreign Lit. & Sci. 4 333 Whenever a member of the society was about to be admitted to his degree or elected to a superiorship, an extraordinary report was made.

1874 Mrs. H. Wood Master of Greylands (new ed.) xxxii. 369 You will be sorry, now, that you have resigned the superiorship to me.

1961 J. H. Fichter Relig. as Occup. 184 ‘Professional superiors’ who are shifted from one superiorship to another within the same organization.

1999 Toronto Star (Nexis) 27 Dec. Manubag, a direct papal representative, gave up his superiorship to volunteer for Madeiro's job as parish priest.