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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The office of a butler.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The rank or office of a butler.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The office of a butler.

Etymologies

  1. butler +‎ -ship (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand: but he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them.”

    Genesis 40.

  • “And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and he gave the cup into”

    Types of Children's Literature

  • “In England, as superintendent of the importation of wine, a duty was payable to him (see BUTLERAGE AND PRISAGE); the butlership of Ireland,”

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"

  • “Henri, who before Alice conferred a full-fledged butlership upon him in his old age was since his youth a stage-carpenter at the Théâtre”

    A Village of Vagabonds

  • “For once, and once only, in the long course of his butlership did the placid and unmoved calm of his manner entirely desert Jessop.”

    Antony Gray,—Gardener

  • “And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand:”

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]

  • “Already before this war began, he had come hither in the service of France to study the progress of the growing discontent; and now he was here again an American major-general, led partly by the ambition of rank, partly by the thirst of distinction, but much, too, by a certain restlessness of nature, and longing for excitement and action, not to be wondered at in one who had fought his way up from a butlership to a barony.”

    Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers

  • “And it came to pass on the third day, Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a banquet for his courtiers, and he lifted up the head of the chief of the butlers and the head of the chief of the bakers amongst his courtiers; namely, he restored the chief of the butlers to his butlership, so that he again placed the cup in Pharaoh's hand; but the chief of the bakers he hanged, as Joseph had interpreted for them.”

    Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1

  • “01: 040: 021 And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand:”

    The Bible, King James version, Book 1: Genesis

  • “21 And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand: 22 But he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them.”

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy)

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