Mastership
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Mastership is a noun meaning The state or office of a master.
Meaning
The state or office of a master.
More Meanings
- Mastery: dominion, superiority, control.
- Mastery: superior skill.
- A title of respect, sometimes ironic.
- (obsolete) Chief work; masterpiece.
Example Sentences
I cannot doubt my mastership of fate, Nor bind my boundless soul.
Passage to you, your shores, ye aged fierce enigmas! Passage to you, to mastership of you, ye strangling problems!
A Repentant Sinner is the Child of Grace, who being borne for the seruice of God, makes no reckoning of the mastershippe of the world [...]
Johnson, in August 1738, went, with all the same of his poetry, to offer himself a candidate for the mastership of the school at Appleby, in Leicestershire.
Word Forms
- masterships
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include housemastership, schoolmastership, taskmastership, schoolmasterhood, headmastership, maister.
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