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Burghership

Burghership \Burgh"er*ship\, n. The state or privileges of a burgher.

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burghership

n. The state of being a burgher; citizenship.

Usage examples of "burghership".

One was that the alien who aspired to burghership had to produce a certificate of continuous registration for a certain time.

Again, the continued burghership of the newcomers was made to depend upon the resolution of the first Raad, so that should the mining members propose any measure of reform, not only their Bill but they also might be swept out of the house by a Boer majority.