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Pretendership

Pretendership \Pre*tend"er*ship\, n. The character, right, or claim of a pretender.
--Swift.

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pretendership

n. The character or claims of a pretender.

Usage examples of "pretendership".

Destroyer of Vordarian's Pretendership, engineer of the peculiar victory of the third Cetagandan war, unshaken tiger-rider of Barrayar's murderous internecine politics for the past two decades.

Oser should have been around during the Vordarian's Pretendership, and seen how the big boys operate.

Plus, she established quite a local military reputation in the fighting of Vordarian's Pretendership, the year I was born twice.

It had been burned to the ground during the War of Vordarian's Pretendership, the year of Miles's soltoxin-gas-damaged birth, and subsequently rebuilt.