prelateship
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From prelate + -ship. Compare prelacy.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]prelateship (countable and uncountable, plural prelateships)
- The rank or office of prelate. [from 16th c.]
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:, II.8:
- Heliodorus that good Bishop of Tricea, loved rather to lose the dignity, profit and devotion of so venerable a Prelateship, than to for-goe his daughter […].