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Chancellorship

Chancellorship \Chan"cel*lor*ship\ (ch[.a]n"s[e^]l*l[~e]r*sh[i^]p), n. The office of a chancellor; the time during which one is chancellor.

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chancellorship

n. The status of being a chancellor.

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chancellorship

n. the office of chancellor

Usage examples of "chancellorship".

If I stand down, and let the honor of the Imperial Chancellorship be awarded to a rival house, the enemies will strike next at my wife, who carries the heir to our name.

The popular rebellion I'd seen in Munich was only one of a dozen that broke out that spring, and all the fellows who'd lost their thrones and chancellorships seemed to have decided, like me, that old England was the safest place.

This only served to augment the enmity of the Parliament, and when D'Argenson, a man devoted to the interests of the Regent, was appointed to the vacant chancellorship, and made at the same time minister of finance, they became more violent than ever.