Studency
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The role or position of being a student. countable, uncountable
"Dr. Jefferies, a canon of Christ Church, accordingly offered his assistance in procuring for him a studency in that house ; but his father's predilection for his own college in Cambridge, induced him to reject this offer, and on this circumstance Mr. Wakefield reflects with the profoundest gratitude to the Almighty, for having rescued him from an university whose system of study he reprobates in the severest and most decisive terms."
Example
More examples"Dr. Jefferies, a canon of Christ Church, accordingly offered his assistance in procuring for him a studency in that house ; but his father's predilection for his own college in Cambridge, induced him to reject this offer, and on this circumstance Mr. Wakefield reflects with the profoundest gratitude to the Almighty, for having rescued him from an university whose system of study he reprobates in the severest and most decisive terms."
Etymology
From student + -cy.
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