Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or rank of a don: used, after your, his, etc., in an honorary form of address or reference to one entitled to be called
don .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or rank of a don, gentleman, or knight.
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- noun The position or role of a
don .
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Examples
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After many years of donship, his remote parish was somewhat of a solitude to him, and intercourse with a cultivated mind was as pleasant to him now as the sight of a lady had been in his college days.
Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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“I am amazed,” cried Tom, “how did his donship get such a lovely creature?”
Three Weeks in the Downs, or Conjugal Fidelity Rewarded: exemplified in the Narrative of Helen and Edmund Anonymous 1829
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(that of Oxford donship undoubtedly is), but I can't tell you how antique it all seems.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 1, 1916 Various 1898
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