Bishophood

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The state, condition, or office of a bishop. uncountable

    "I find he was really of religious nature, and thought in secret, in spite of his bishophood, very much in regard to religion as we do."

Example

More examples

"I find he was really of religious nature, and thought in secret, in spite of his bishophood, very much in regard to religion as we do."

Etymology

From Middle English bischophood, bishophod, bischophad, from Old English bisċophād (“the office or state of a bishop; the episcopate”), equivalent to bishop + -hood.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.