eldership
/ˈɛldɚʃɪp/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.62 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The position of being elder or senior; seniority, precedence of birth, primogeniture.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The collective body of (ecclesiastical) elders; a body or court of elders, a presbytery.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The smallest administrative division in Lithuania, equivalent to a ward.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Primogenitura, or eldership of birth, was greatly respected by God."
- "My claim to her by Eldership I prove."
- "Her sister addressed her always by the word Child, with an air of eldership."
- "Though Truth and Falsehood are as twins ally’d, There’s eldership on Truth’s delightful side."
- "It followeth now to entreat how the world began to receive rule and government, which, while it had scarcity of people, underwent no other dominion than paternity and eldership."
- "[By Roman law] all children inherited their father’s estate in equal portions, without distinction of sex or eldership."