Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The office or state of a sultan.
Wiktionary
- n. The office or status of a sultan.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The office or dignity of a sultan.
Etymologies
- sultan + -ship (Wiktionary)
Examples
“It was by accident; his sultanship was felled by a fall.”
“Altogether the sultanship of a district in Ugogo must be very remunerative, besides being a delightful sinecure, so long as the”
“These adventures augment my rapturous felicity; and if time and destiny have shorn me of the privilege of my sultanship, which you say rendered me so proud and vain,”
“This temporary sultanship always falls in spring, about the beginning of April.”
“I should hear, some fine morning, his sultanship of Roum rattling at my gates.”
“If all the divinities on earth were ranged before him, waiting for his sultanship to throw the handkerchief, he would only lift his eyebrows to the middle of his forehead, and tell them to scramble for it. ”
“There is a dory yonder; if your indolent sultanship can bear the labor of steering, I'll give you a last row across the bay. ”
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