What is "chiefship"

Usage examples of "chiefship".

Perhaps he would be instrumental in helping Gwenny achieve the chiefship, or perhaps it would happen in some other manner.

Gwendolyn must not begin her chiefship with a crime against the succession.

So Gwendolyn is heir to the chiefship and has the chance to improve things greatly in this tribe, because, of course, the goblin women have always been everything the goblin men are not: intelligent, attractive, and decent.

But in the absence of a legitimate heir to the chiefship, the older boy would become eligible.

He had assumed the chiefship not only of the minor Kiyat clan, but of the powerful Borjigin tribe of Mongols.

Chief Targhutai Kiriltug and his brother have laid claim to the chiefship of the entire Borjigin tribe, now that your father is dead.

Targ was coming to ensure the demise of his rival claimant to the chiefship of the larger Mongol tribe.

Jaw had taken him, a bastard son with only half a name and enemies for brothers, to the chiefship he held today.

They met only the once, yet both men spent the rest of their chiefships building bonds of fosterage between their clans that have stayed in place to this day.

Suddenly they were faced with bad faith-because of bad goblins who had fled the enlightened female chiefship of cousin-once-removed Gwenny and come here to establish their evil order.

When I was twenty-two Broddic Haddo crossed swords with me for the chiefship of Bludd.