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- noun Plural form of
chiefship .
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Examples
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All nominations to hereditary chiefships, while originating with the women's council, had to be ratified by the tribal and league councils.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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The chiefships of Laurier and Macdonald overlapped by only four years, but they were of the same political generation and they adhered to the same tradition.
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March, 1889, they appointed in nearly every case new men from the States to these chiefships, who were free from rings and cliques, and they ignored the claims of the old ex-chiefs, who thought they had a monoply of these positions, and were bold enough to say so when speaking of them, as "my old place."
The new man : twenty-nine years a slave, twenty-nine years a free man, 1895
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This was the origin of the numerous petty chiefships and confederacies of horsemen, which, along with the Phulkian
The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir James McCrone Douie 1894
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Highland chiefships, had other stakes and interests in the country; but almost the only person with a Highland patronymic was John MacPharlane of that ilk, a retired scholar who followed antiquarian pursuits in the libraries beneath the Parliament House.
An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America 1893
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Owing to his want of hardihood, and weakness of character, the dissensions continued, and Sivajee's kingdom seemed to be on the point of breaking up into a number of independent chiefships.
The Pirates of Malabar, and an Englishwoman in India Two Hundred Years Ago 1880
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Of the petty independent chiefships some were seized forcibly, others submitted and paid tribute.
Studies in Literature and History Alfred Comyn Lyall 1873
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But this kingdom of Afghanistan is really composed of a number of chiefships and provinces very loosely knit together under the sway of the Amir, which might fall asunder again if the rulership at Kabul became weak.
Studies in Literature and History Alfred Comyn Lyall 1873
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Far East beyond Burmah we have undertaken the control of a border tract, full of petty rival chiefships, where the language, manners and origins are related to the neighbouring population of China.
Studies in Literature and History Alfred Comyn Lyall 1873
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We would farther ask that our chiefships be established by the Government.
The Treaties of Canada with the Indians of Manitoba and the North-West Territories Including the Negotiations on Which They Were Based, and Other Information Relating Thereto Alexander Morris 1857
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