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- noun Plural form of
headship .
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Examples
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Yes, we have all been given our God-ordained roles, but we have also been put under different headships.
Living the Dream 2007
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There are few or no cases of women being elevated to the headships of towns further south.
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So why were no women promoted to their places, or to any of the other possible headships in the College?
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In sundry semi-civilised societies distinguished by permanent political headships, inheritance through males has been established in the ruling house while inheritance through females survives in the society at large.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics Various 1910
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This President complained that his headship was "more payneful than gayneful," a charge not usually brought against headships at Oxford.
The Charm of Oxford 1892
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The cabecerías [_i. e._, headships], much more ancient in origin than the reductions [_i. e._, native villages of converts], were doubtless hereditary.
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Then Oxford, which in later times became from the clerical character of the headships and fellowships the great organ of reaction, was the great organ of progress, produced the political songs which embodied, with wonderful force, the principles of free government, and sent her students to fight under the banner of the university in the army of Simon de Montfort.
Lectures and Essays Goldwin Smith 1866
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God seems to love these federal headships, as we call them.
Bertha and Her Baptism Nehemiah Adams 1842
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In 'THE PREROGATIVE INSTANCES,' the universal matter of _fact_ is already taken up and disposed of in grand masses, under these headships and chief cases, not in a miscellaneous, but scientific manner.
The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded Delia Bacon 1835
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Among those currently in headships, 58% have the NPQH, which two years ago was made a compulsory requirement for new head teachers.
BBC News - Home 2011
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