Headship

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

The position of a head or chief..

Definitions by Sense

1. The position of a head or chief.
2. (British) The position of a headmaster or headmistress.
3. (archaic) Authority or dignity.

Example Sentences

And if you say that this enslavement of Woman has nothing to do with religion[…]then listen to the Vicar of Crantock, preaching at St. Crantock's, London, Aug. 27th, 1905, and explaining why women must cover their heads in church: […] (7) The headship of man and woman. The head of every man is Christ, but the head of the woman is man.

[…] shows Dorothy Ranaghan explaining how some female followers of the faith group cried intensely in reaction to the group’s early teachings on “headship” and the “roles of men and women”, in which men are considered divinely ordained as the “head” of the family and dominant to women.

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