Beadleship

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The office or jurisdiction of a beadle. uncountable, usually

    "He was degraded in their eyes; he had lost caste and station before the very paupers; he had fallen from all the height and pomp of beadleship to the lowest depth of the most snubbed hen-peckery."

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"He was degraded in their eyes; he had lost caste and station before the very paupers; he had fallen from all the height and pomp of beadleship to the lowest depth of the most snubbed hen-peckery."

Etymology

From beadle + -ship.

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