The Collaborative International Dictionary
Provostship
Provostship \Prov"ost*ship\, n. The office of a provost.
Wiktionary
provostship
n. The state, property, or office of being a provost.
Usage examples of "provostship".
And it is also decreed that this sentence be printed and published by the deputy of the Attorney-General at the Chatelet, and affixed to the walls in the usual places and cross roads of the town, provostship and viscounty of Paris, and wherever else requisite.
In the first place he enjoyed a handsome salary to which hung, like supernumerary bunches of grapes to his vine, the revenues of the civil and criminal registries of the provostships, and also the civil and criminal revenues of the Court of the Châtelet, to say nothing of the tolls collected at the bridge of Mante and Corbeil, and other minor perquisites.