Definitions
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- noun The role or position of
headmaster .
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- noun the position of headmaster
Etymologies
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Examples
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In fact, he had applied for the headmastership of Knightley Academy when their grand chevalier announced he would be retiring just after his eighty-second birthday.
KNIGHTLEY ACADEMY VIOLET HABERDASHER 2010
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“In my fifth decade of headmastership, the board of trustees agreed that it might be best if I stepped down to allow another highly qualified candidate to take over the reverent position.”
THE HARDY BOYS Franklin W. Dixon 2010
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In fact, he had applied for the headmastership of Knightley Academy when their grand chevalier announced he would be retiring just after his eighty-second birthday.
KNIGHTLEY ACADEMY VIOLET HABERDASHER 2010
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“In my fifth decade of headmastership, the board of trustees agreed that it might be best if I stepped down to allow another highly qualified candidate to take over the reverent position.”
THE HARDY BOYS Franklin W. Dixon 2010
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During his headmastership its reputation greatly increased, and in the standard of its scholarship it stood as high as any other public school in England.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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In 1667, after taking orders, he was appointed by Roger Boyle, first Lord Orrery, to the headmastership of a school recently established by that nobleman at
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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But he is an exception; and besides, he did not stop an assistant master long; he got a headmastership pretty soon.
The Loom of Youth Alec Waugh 1939
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William Woodford, of Caroline and accepted the headmastership of Rappahannock Academy, which position he filled with distinction for three years.
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After more than twenty-five years 'service as headmaster of the school at a meagre salary of £400 a year, he was about to be dismissed; the number of scholars had been declining steadily and a change in the headmastership thought necessary; there was no suggestion of his receiving any kind of pension.
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IN 1827 the headmastership of Rugby school fell vacant, and it became necessary for the twelve trustees, noblemen and gentlemen of Warwickshire, to appoint a successor to the post.
Dr. Arnold 1918
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