Meaning

The position of being elder or senior; seniority, precedence of birth, primogeniture..

Definitions by Sense

1. The position of being elder or senior; seniority, precedence of birth, primogeniture.
2. (nonce word, as a mock title of honour) The personality of an elderly person.
3. The office or position of elder in a church.
4. The collective body of (ecclesiastical) elders; a body or court of elders, a presbytery.
5. The smallest administrative division in Lithuania, equivalent to a ward.

Example Sentences

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.

Word Forms

• elderships

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