What is "rulership"

Usage examples of "rulership".

And the rumor that crossed the waters was this: The Cruarch of Alba was dead, slain, it was said, by his own son, who sought to overturn the old matrilineal rites of succession and seize rulership of Alba for himself.

Such a move would be too contentious, she decided, given the tenuous state of rulership in the currently king-and queenless realm.

Abandoning seership for rulership, he gradually, despite his most strenuous efforts to retain it, lost the mystical vision which had given him his spiritual authority -- but not, unfortunately, before he had covered with that authority many acts and policies of the most questionable nature.

The rulership of Thebes changed many times over the years, from northern conquerers to Cushite kings to high priests, but they were all, even the Cushitesespecially the Cushitesdevout followers of the old gods.

Conradina was herself wounded in battle, and thus finding herself burdened with disease as well as the loss of her earlier good fortune, she called her brother Eberhard to her side and reminded him that their family had every resource that the dignity of the rulership demandedevery resource except good luck.

He would leave behind him the rulership of the contending Domains, each striving for something different in the ever-changing world that was modern Darkover.

He had been a bit careless, he realized, particularly in going to the stupid boy who was now claiming rulership of his old shanty town and by showing his dagger to the beggar at Pook's old house.

Dictators, Emperors, Consolidators wrested the rulership of their own or kindred solar systems from Central Control.

No color relieved the dirty grey of the walls, no banner, save a large pole encrystaled with salt deposit, stood before that place of rulership.

Perhaps Darmouth's hunger to legitimize his rulership extended to this room, where he would lay to rest the dead who would mark his descendants as true kings.

One could enter the true heart of it, the rulerships of far-off places, both probable and improbable worlds.

Our replicas could well have turned our rulerships into holdings for the Mengians.

Gangsters of other breeds were equally taciturn, and she most that could be gathered was that some god or great priesthood had promised them unheard-of powers and supernatural glories and rulerships in a strange land.

Rhodan, disciplined to his fingertips, stern with himself, filled with the mission of bringing Earthly humanity to the rulership of the universe, had a man at his side who was his best friend and who also never flinched from duty-one who often recovered from the rough spots without embarrassment because he only represented himself for what he actually was, big-hearted, expansive, easygoing, boisterous and with an impulsive temperament that was not averse to using strong language.

And here I had not only encountered more than my share, but I had risen to a degree of rulership myself.