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judgeship

judgeship \judge"ship\, n. The office or position of a judge.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
judgeship

1670s, from judge (n.) + -ship.

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judgeship

n. The office or status of a judge

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judgeship

n. the position of judge [syn: judgship, judicature]

Usage examples of "judgeship".

Let any one who has the least knowledge of advocacy consider what it was to carry that case to a successful issue, and then condemn me for not taking a judgeship if he will.

It was no hope of mine to step into a puisne judgeship, or, for the matter of that, any other judicial position.

Caufeld could be confirmed, Abram appointed to a district judgeship and Edie appointed the U.

He had resigned his judgeship in order to spend the autumn months campaigning for the office among his influential friends in Raleigh, while his duties to justice in the mountain counties lay forgotten, overshadowed by his ambition.

By the fall of 1991, Reagan and Bush had filled more than half of the 837 federal judgeships, and appointed enough right-wing justices to transform the Supreme Court.

But a new complexion was put upon the matter when to the perplexedly uncondemnatory bench (whereon punic judgeship strove with penal law) the senior king of all, Pegger Festy, as soon as the outer layer of stucckomuck had been removed at the request of a few live jurors, declared in a loudburst of poesy, through his Brythonic interpreter on his oath, mhuith peisth mhuise as fearra bheura muirre hriosmas, whereas take notice be the relics of the bones of the story bouchal that was ate be Cliopatrick (the sow) princess of parked porkers, afore God and all their honours and king's commons that .