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Definition of Primateship
1. Noun. The office of primate.
Derivative terms: Primate
Definition of Primateship
1. n. The office, dignity, or position of a primate; primacy.
Definition of Primateship
1. Noun. The office, dignity, or position of a primate (church officer). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Primateship
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Primateship
Literary usage of Primateship
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An analytical and comparative view of all religions now extant among mankind by Josiah Conder (1838)
"This obduracy in maintaining as a privilege of the primateship, a visionary power
which has no other prop than immeasurable ambition, ought to open the eyes ..."
2. A Glossary of Liturgical and Ecclesiastical Terms by Frederick George Lee (1877)
"2. The office, position, or dignity of an archbishop. primateship.—The office or
dignity of a primate or archbishop. ..."
3. The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century by Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1911)
"And thus we find such inconsistencies as that a heathen Emperor (Aurelian, in
the year 272) forces upon Christianity the primateship of the Roman bishop, ..."
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