Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The office, authority, or rank of mandarin.
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Examples
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Pountsin-hia (thus he was called) obtained for himself a mandarinship of the fifth rank; for his son John he secured even more, for Father Schall regularly adopted him as his grandson, and the emperor Shun-chi granted many weighty favours to this "adopted grandson" of the missionary whom he loved.
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