discipleship
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Noun
[edit]discipleship (countable and uncountable, plural discipleships)
- (uncountable) The condition of being a disciple.
- Coordinate term: apostleship
- Near-synonyms: followership; apprenticeship, tutelage
- 1927, Elbert Hubbard, The Notebook of Elbert Hubbard: Mottos, Epigrams, Short Essays, Passages, Orphic Sayings and Preachments: Coined from a Life of Love, Laugher and Work[1], William H. Wise and Company, page 197:
- The weaknesses of the many make the leader possible—and the man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine worth and insight wants to be himself; and he wants others to be themselves, also. Discipleship is a degenerating process to all parties concerned. People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.
- (countable) The period during which a person is a disciple.
- Coordinate term: apprenticeship
Translations
[edit]condition of being a disciple
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period during which a person is a disciple
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