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- noun Plural form of
executorship .
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Examples
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He ` s an expert in wills, probates, executorships.
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I have, indeed two other executorships on my hands; but they sit light upon me.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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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
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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
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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
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To neither of these executorships, therefore, could
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 Thomas Jefferson 1784
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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
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I have done 4 executorships and notified everyone of the remaining assets after all the creditors have been paid.
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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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