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  • noun Plural form of executorship.

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Examples

  • He ` s an expert in wills, probates, executorships.

    CNN Transcript Feb 19, 2007 2007

  • I have, indeed two other executorships on my hands; but they sit light upon me.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • And Mrs. Lovick has taken pains to inquire after his general character; and hears a very good one of him, his justice and generosity in all his concerns of meum and tuum, as they are called: he has a knowledge of law-matters; and has two executorships upon him at this time, in the discharge of which his honour is unquestioned.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • As for fishing for testaments and executorships (as Tacitus saith of Seneca, testamenta et orbos tamquam indagine capi [he took testaments and wardships as with a net]), it is yet worse; by how much men submit themselves to meaner persons than in service.

    XXXIV. Of Riches 1909

  • As for fishing for testaments and executorships (as Tacitus saith of Seneca, _testamenta et orbos tamquam indagine capi_, [32]) it is yet worse; by how much men submit themselves to meaner persons than in service.

    The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I Various 1885

  • To neither of these executorships, therefore, could

    Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 Thomas Jefferson 1784

  • And Mrs. Lovick has taken pains to inquire after his general character; and hears a very good one of him, his justice and generosity in all his concerns of meum and tuum, as they are called: he has a knowledge of law-matters; and has two executorships upon him at this time, in the discharge of which his honour is unquestioned.

    Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7 Samuel Richardson 1725

  • I have done 4 executorships and notified everyone of the remaining assets after all the creditors have been paid.

    Answerbag: Latest Questions in Question Categories 2008

  • And since thou art so expert and so ready at executorships, pr’ythee, Belford, accept of the office for me, as well as for my Clarissa — CLARISSA LOVELACE let me call her.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

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