Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or privilege of being a burgher.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The state or privileges of a burgher.

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  • noun The state of being a burgher; citizenship.
  • noun The rights and privileges of a burgher; burgess-ship.

Etymologies

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From burgher +‎ -ship.

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Examples

  • "_All coloured people are excluded from this provision_, and (in accordance with the Grondwet) they may never be given or granted rights of burghership ...."

    The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 Various

  • The men received full burghership as a rule soon after arrival, exempt from the formalities and probation prescribed by law.

    Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (2nd ed.) The Conspiracy of the 19th Century Unmasked C. H. Thomas

  • States is about fifty thousand, and that number is swollen by the addition of non-British Uitlanders who have been induced to take arms by the offer of burghership.

    Lessons of the War Being Comments from Week to Week to the Relief of Ladysmith Spenser Wilkinson 1895

  • One was that the alien who aspired to burghership had to produce a certificate of continuous registration for

    The War in South Africa Its Cause and Conduct Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • Again, the continued burghership of the newcomers was made to depend upon the resolution of the first Raad, so that should the mining members propose any measure of reform, not only their Bill but they also might be swept out of the house by a Boer majority.

    The Great Boer War Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • Again, the continued burghership of the new-comers was made to depend upon the resolution of the first Raad, so that should the mining members propose any measure of reform, not only their Bill but they also might be swept out of the house by a Boer majority.

    The War in South Africa Its Cause and Conduct Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • One was that the alien who aspired to burghership had to produce a certificate of continuous registration for

    The Great Boer War Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • At the time of the Convention of Pretoria (1881) the rights of burghership might be obtained by one year's residence.

    The Great Boer War Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • At the time of the Convention of Pretoria (1881) the rights of burghership might be obtained by one year's residence.

    The War in South Africa Its Cause and Conduct Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • Under this mild phrase, _to admonish_, was concealed a cruel exercise of tyranny -- it meant to warn a man that he was suspected of treason, and that he had better relinquish the exercise of his burghership.

    Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series John Addington Symonds 1866

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