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matronship
n. matronage
Usage examples of "matronship".
Rebecca, to whom my castles on the Hill were never castles in the air, but who believed most implicitly that I would, sooner or later, perform all things that ever I dreamed of doing, accepted her prospective matronship with a becoming sense of its advantage and dignity.
Your Royal Matronship, but I can take a ship a good many places others have said a ship was never meant to go!