Adeptship

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The role or status of an adept. countable, uncountable

    "It is, indeed, part of the ritual of the candidate for adeptship into the British mysteries, resembling that for the neophyte into the Osirian, Cabiric or Orphean mysteries."

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"It is, indeed, part of the ritual of the candidate for adeptship into the British mysteries, resembling that for the neophyte into the Osirian, Cabiric or Orphean mysteries."

Etymology

From adept + -ship.

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