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The position of head
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headship
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Headship \Head"ship\, n. Authority or dignity; chief place.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the position of headmaster or headmistress the position of head
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ At the time of the election to the Coulson Professorship, the headship will have been filled. ▪ Barth believes that the scriptures from Genesis forward imply the headship of man and the subordination of woman. ▪ But the report ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The position of a head or chief 2 (context British English) The position of a headmaster or headmistress 3 (context archaic English) authority or dignity
Usage examples of headship.
The last sentence may be interpreted by the notice of Suidas, who informs us that Apollonius was a contemporary of Eratosthenes, Euphorion and Timarchus, in the time of Ptolemy Euergetes, and that he succeeded Eratosthenes in the headship of the Alexandrian Library.
Wami, the wife of Moa, she who had been the foster mother of Kwa and who shared with Moa the headship of the Furry Tribe.
The legal headship of the Faith had been vested since 750 in the Caliphs of Baghdad, who represented orthodox Islam.
It followed her to the Sabbath-day catechisings, where she repeated the answers about the federal headship of Adam, and her consequent personal responsibilities, and other technicalities which are hardly milk for babes, perhaps as well as other children, but without any very profound remorse for what she could not help, so far as she understood the matter, any more than her sex or stature, and with no very clear comprehension of the phrases which the New England followers of the Westminster divines made a part of the elementary instruction of young people.