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Eldership
"Eldership" in a Sentence (16 examples)
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.
So irresistible to their elderships to be flattered.
The office of eldership is equallie distributed betweene the bishop and the minister.
He was deposed from his Eldership.
When I came first to Caulds I sought to prevail upon him to accept the eldership, but he aye put me by, and when I heard his tale I saw that he had done wisely.
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That gyft, which was geuen thee by prophecie with the laying on of the handes, by the Eldership.
They that tyrannize not over, but be subject to their particulare elderships.
Do you not lay in one scale the minister against the whole eldership in the other?
As office-bearers in the church we are an unholy and an unworthy eldership.
All the courts of the Church might be called either Presbyteries or Elderships.
The local governmental system in Lithuania has passed through several changes since the restoration of independence, and its future is still being debated. There are three levels of local government: apskritys (plural apskritis, usually translated as “counties”); municipalities; and elderates, sometimes given as elderships.
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