ministryship
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]ministryship (uncountable)
- The office of a minister
- Synonyms: ministership, ministry
- October 15 1730, Jonathan Swift, The Answer of William Pulteney to Sir Robert Walpole
- Heaven forbid that the welfare of a great kingdom, and of a brave people, should be trusted with the thread of a single subject's life; for I suppose it is not yet in your view to entail the ministryship in your family.
References
[edit]- “ministryship”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.