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- noun Plural form of
overseership .
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When your self-trumpeting Hatmaker is the emblem of almost all makers, and workers, and men, that make anything, -- from soul-overseerships, body-overseerships, epic poems, acts of parliament, to hats and shoe-blacking!
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838
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When your self-trumpeting Hatmaker is the emblem of almost all makers, and workers, and men, that make anything, -- from soul-overseerships, body-overseerships, epic poems, acts of parliament, to hats and shoe-blacking!
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838
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