Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The office or duties of a precentor; the condition of being a precentor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The office of a precentor.
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- noun The role or office of a
precentor .
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- noun the position of precentor
Etymologies
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Examples
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Roman imperial society, wherein Christianity arose under the ambitious precentorship of the apostle Paul.
Stuart Whatley: Democratic Values, Islam and the Judeo-Christian Tradition Fallacy 2010
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Roman imperial society, wherein Christianity arose under the ambitious precentorship of the apostle Paul.
Stuart Whatley: Democratic Values, Islam and the Judeo-Christian Tradition Fallacy 2010
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Since his appointment to his precentorship, he has published, with all possible additions of vellum, typography, and gilding, a collection of our ancient church music, with some correct dissertations on
The Warden 2004
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Now there are peculiar circumstances connected with the precentorship which must be explained.
The Warden 2004
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Would he have to abdicate his precentorship, as he had his wardenship, and to give up chanting, as he had given up his twelve old bedesmen?
Barchester Towers 2004
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Touching the precentorship, the bishop was clearly of opinion that it could be held without the other situation — an opinion from which no one differed; and it was therefore soon settled among all the parties concerned, that Mr Harding should still be the precentor of the cathedral.
The Warden 2004
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Lordship is aware, joined to that of the warden; that is to say, the precentor has for many years been the warden of the hospital; there is, however, nothing to make the junction of the two offices necessary, and, unless you or the dean and chapter object to such an arrangement, I would wish to keep the precentorship.
The Warden 2004
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Mr Harding proceeded to explain to the man of law that he meant to keep his precentorship — that was eighty pounds a year; and, also, that he meant to fall back upon his own little living of
The Warden 2004
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In 1860 he was transferred to the precentorship of Clogher in conjunction with the rectory of Enniskillen; in 1864, on the death of Dr. Newman, he was installed Dean of Cork; and in 1866 was appointed Dean of the Chapel
The New Guide to Peterborough Cathedral George S. Phillips
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Now there are peculiar circumstances connected with the precentorship which must be explained.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction Various 1910
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