ministryship
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Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
ministryship (uncountable)
- The office of a minister.
- 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.
- October 15 1730, Jonathan Swift, The Answer of William Pulteney to Sir Robert Walpole
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ministryship”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)