Find the word definition

The Collaborative International Dictionary
Emperorship

Emperorship \Em"per*or*ship\, n. The rank or office of an emperor.

Wiktionary
emperorship

n. The rank or office of an emperor.

Usage examples of "emperorship".

It would not fulfill the spirit of my oath to hand over to Prince Gregor an emperorship gutted of power.

Restorer had never ceased to insist that he had not sought even the Emperorship of the West, much less of a reunited Roman Empire.

I renounce the emperorship, and agree to serve as an agent of CC in trying to trace down the source of the threat to it.

Chinese ideas about emperorship, which hold that the emperor not only enjoyed absolute authority over all the people but, in the proper exercise of his office, was essential to the basic functioning of nature itself.

Even the northern branch, although left in possession of the throne, retained no governing authority whatever, and from this time on the emperorship was little more than a legitimating talisman for the rule of successive military houses.

If the question of rightful Emperorship is solved, I suspect the issue of who should be governing the outlying provinces will fade into the background.

Mack II will reassume their rightful names and thrones -- the monarchies at first of France and England respectively, but eventually the emperorships of West and East.